Pakistan AI Centers of Excellence (Pak AI CoE)

From Karachi’s 12-hub pilot to a 100-hub national AI skills and innovation grid.

High-Performance Computing and sectoral AI sandboxes

Pak AI CoE gives learners, trainers, startups, and institutions access to GPU-backed High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure and controlled data sandboxes — resources that no single institute can afford in isolation.

What HPC enables

  • Training and fine-tuning of machine learning models.
  • Simulation, optimization, and routing workloads.
  • Heavy data processing for health, finance, logistics, and manufacturing sectors.
  • Standardized environments for benchmarking different institutes’ projects.

Sectoral AI sandboxes

  • Health AI Sandbox: triage support, imaging workflows, capacity modeling.
  • FinTech & GovTech Sandbox: fraud scoring, document automation, compliance analytics.
  • Industrial AI Sandbox: predictive maintenance, quality inspection, IoT-integrated systems.
  • GeoAI Sandbox: mapping, environmental modeling, transport optimization.

Why the sandbox model is essential

  • Provides real datasets in a governed environment without exposing sensitive information.
  • Allows industry and government to collaborate safely with TVET and universities.
  • Creates hands-on experience that directly matches real-world jobs.

National scalability

  • Each city hub plugs into the same HPC fabric.
  • Standardized access APIs across all hubs.
  • Unified security, monitoring, and data governance.