Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav launched the India AI Compute Portal and Dataset Platform AI Kosh in New Delhi. The AI Kosh Sovereign Dataset Platform will help develop and train Indian AI models.
While through the India AI Compute Portal, researchers, startups and government agencies can access subsidized GPUs for research and testing. The government has fixed the GPUs subsidy rate at around Rs 67 per hour. For this, about 10,000 GPUs have been made live.
Along with this, Ashwini Vaishnav has announced the creation of AI data labs in 27 cities under the India AI Mission. These labs will be used for research and development in AI.
AI Kosh: Ashwini Vaishnav said – India will be included in the top 5 tech nations
Vaishnav said that in the next 3-4 years, India will develop its own GPUs. He said that in the coming time, India will be included in the top 5 tech countries in areas like AI, semiconductors and deeptech.
18,693 GPUs will be installed under IndiaAI Mission
In March 2023, the Cabinet approved a budget of Rs 10,371.92 crore for the IndiaAI Mission. About 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUs) will be installed with 45% of the funds. This will develop the world’s largest compute infrastructure, which will be 9 times larger than the Chinese AI model Deep Seek.
Through all these GPUs, research companies will be able to access computing resources. The 10 lowest bidding companies have been selected for these GPUs. 15,000 GPUs are already available through managed service providers Yotta Data Services, E2E Networks, Tata Communications and AWS.
The remaining 4,000 GPUs are to be purchased and it is expected that companies like Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters will acquire them.
