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Updated - May 29, 2026 at 09:20 PM.

| Mumbai

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a conversation at 'Mumbai Tech Week 2026' on the topic 'Maharashtra's AI Vision', in Mumbai | Photo Credit: ANI

Maharashtra government will provide access to 2,000 GPUs to innovators to help develop and train AI models, said Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, at the Mumbai Tech Week event on Friday.

Addressing the group of start-up founders in the city, Fadnavis said, “Today we talk in terms of GPUs. If the innovators cannot afford computing facility then the innovation stops at that. So we are also creating compute-as-a-service facility by which we will make available 2,000 GPUs to all innovators so that they can have direct access to it.”

Fadnavis argued there is an appetite and an ecosystem in the State that will lead the AI revolution. Further he said investors and startups are resolving their confusion on whether to stay in Mumbai or go to any other city as the city has become “The start-up capital of India by sheer numbers and also by investment.”

Dedicated infrastructure

Fadnavis also talked about plans to attract ₹10,000 crore in investments, create 125 lakh jobs and build dedicated infrastructure to support start-ups and innovation in the sector, under its recent AI policy. Further it plans to set up six Centres of Excellence focused on AI and create dedicated AI Innovation Regions to encourage research, development and commercialisation.

“We have created a very robust policy whereby we look at ₹10,000 crore investment in AI, 125 lakh jobs being created. We want to create six centres of excellence around AI. We are going to create AI innovation regions,” he said.

Published on May 29, 2026

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