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 in developing and training 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. 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 India AI Mission In March 2023, the Cabinet approved a budget of Rs 10,371.92 crore for the India AI Mission. About 18,693 graphics processing units i.e. 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. Research companies will be able to access computing resources through all these GPUs. The 10 companies with the lowest bids 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. 12,896 GPUs High-end models like Nvidia H100
About 12,896 of the GPUs to be installed are high-end models like Nvidia H100. This will include 1,480 H200 GPUs models. While 30% of the GPUs are of low capacity or older generation. 9,216 GPUs are expected to make the biggest contribution to the compute capacity through Yotta Data Services. AWS will supply 1,200 lower-end GPUs Apart from this, AWS will supply 1,200 lower-end GPUs through its four managed service providers – CMS Computer, Locus Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies and Vencisco Technologies. This includes 800 AWS Inferentia 2 and 400 Trainium 1 chips. Jio Platforms will make available 208 Nvidia H200 GPUs and 104 AMD MI300X GPUs. It also plans to submit revised lower bids for additional GPUs in the next panel process on April 30. Government’s push to AI
The Indian government has also stepped up its efforts to build domestic artificial intelligence models. The government’s drive to acquire new GPUs is aimed at equipping researchers and startups with the computing power needed to build AI models that serve as the core of AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini.
