KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS I LLUS TRA TI V E V ALU E USE D SO URC E / N OTE ~US$0.0000025 / inference (≈₹0.0002) Commodity imageclassifier pricing, 2025–26 (Ref. 3) ~US$0.002 / image (≈₹1.7) Frontier vision-model pricing, 2025–26 (Ref. 4) AI cost trend ~10× cheaper per year Industry inferencecost trend (Ref. 5) Waste sector scale 6,000–7,500 TPD; ~13,000 HKS units Invest Kerala; Suchitwa Mission (Refs. 6–7) Tourism revenue / arrivals Kerala ₹45,054 cr (2024); 2.58 Tourism; cr (2025) TMV (Ref. 8) Road toll 3,733 deaths; 56,922 injured (2025) Kerala MVD / Police (Ref. 9) Diabetes prevalence ~23.6% of adults; ~15% controlled ICMRINDIAB; NCD studies (Refs. 10–11) AI institutional context First cabinet-level AI Govt. of ministry; IT Vision 2031 Kerala, 2026 ASSUMPTION Routine verification cost Hard-case verification cost 323