The minister announced that the IndiaAI compute portal will offer graphics processing units (GPUs) for as low as Rs 67 per hour. The portal will provide access to over 18,000 GPUs, cloud storage, and artificial intelligence (AI) services to students, start-ups, researchers, academia, and government departments. The platform will offer AMD 300X, AMD 325X, NVIDIA H200, NVIDIA H100, AWS Trainium, Inferentia, and NVIDIA GeForce.
As per him, the Indian government is conducting extensive consultations with experts on developing indigenous chipsets, a move that could significantly change the country’s trajectory. In the next three to four years, India should have its own GPUs competing globally and join the top five technology nations of the world.
Vaishnaw also mentioned that India is establishing 27 AI data labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and is training officials and civil servants through over thousands of courses to enhance their capacity and potential. He further mentioned that foundational courses in data and AI for tenth and twelfth grade students are being created, and over 150 universities will receive the latest tools by next year for AI research. He predicted that India will become a major power in the deep-tech space in the next five years.
Furthermore, the minister recognised 30 start-ups from various sectors shortlisted for the next stage of IndiaAI Innovation Challenge.
Meanwhile, S Krishnan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), stated that the launch of a compute portal will improve AI implementation across India and contribute to the 2047 Viksit Bharat dream.
Further, AIKosha is an all-in-one dataset platform offering compute, datasets, tools, and a secure sandbox environment for researchers, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to build AI applications and solutions.
