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The 2025 Union Budget allocated ₹500 crore for 5 National AI Excellence Centres at IITs and IISc. It appears in Signals because the update is more useful as a short brief than as a raw headline for readers across the AI ecosystem.
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Union Budget 2025: ₹500 Crore AI Excellence Centres
The 2025 Union Budget allocated ₹500 crore for 5 National AI Excellence Centres at IITs and IISc. Additional ₹150 crore for AI4Bharat language research and ₹200 crore for an AI startup fund. Education and healthcare were named priority sectors for AI deployment.
Listed on site: 5 July 2026Source date (if known): 1 Feb 2025
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Reference: Ministry of Finance
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Source: Ministry of Finance
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