Expanded capacity under the mission will provide a common computational AI platform for training and inference, crucial to developing indigenous foundational models tailored to the Indian context.
About IndiaAI Mission
- Launch: 2024 by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY).
- Aim: To foster AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, and developing indigenous AI capabilities.
- Implementing agency: IndiaAI, under MeitY.
- 7 Pillars:
- IndiaAI Compute: Recent addition of 15,916 GPUs to the existing 18,417 empanelled GPUs.
- IndiaAI Innovation Centre: Three AI Centres of Excellence in Healthcare, Agriculture, and Sustainable Cities established in New Delhi.
- IndiaAI Dataset platform: 367 datasets have already been uploaded to AI Kosh.
- IndiaAI Application development initiatives: Sarvam-1 AI Model, a large language model optimised for Indian languages.
- IndiaAI Startup Financing: Selection of three new startups for building India's own Foundation Model.
- IndiaAI FutureSkills
- Safe & Trusted AI
Challenges:
- Huge Investments required in computing infrastructure.
- Narrow focus on developing large language models (LLMs) risks sidelining other promising areas of AI research.
- Safety, transparency, and bias as other models have been criticised for bias.
- High Carbon Emissions: The Paris summit raised the pitch for low-energy computing AI systems.
Conclusion: The need of the hour is to promote ethical and responsible AI development. For this, state-funded AI safety institutes can be setup.