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IndiaAI mission gets boost as compute capacity tops 34,000 GPUs

Posted 02 Jun 2025

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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.

  • Tags :
  • IndiaAI Mission
  • ethical AI
  • Democratisation of Technology
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