Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union minister for electronics and information technology, stated on Thursday that India would develop its own graphics processing units (GPUs) that are competitive on a global scale within three to four years.
“We have a formal compute facility of 15,000 GPUs, which is more than what we have targeted. There are another 4,000 in the pipeline, and many more will come in the forthcoming quarter.”
After achieving a 40% profit margin, he said that the cost of utilizing these GPUs was historically cheap, at less than ₹100 per hour.
When the India AI Mission first started, 10,000 GPUs were the goal. With a ₹10,738 crore investment, it was authorized in March of last year.
Startups, application developers, academics, and students will be able to access compute for over 18,000 GPUs and other AI cloud services through the IndiaAI Compute Portal. It would enable the nation’s AI research and innovation while giving end customers access to a large selection of top-tier GPUs.
Calling access to quality datasets the second pillar of the mission, he said: “We have non-personal data from multiple ministries already available on AI Kosha. Many of these datasets from the agriculture department, weather forecasting, and logistics are available for training learners.”
A competence framework for AI and public sector professionals was introduced by the government. Government officials will be trained under it.
Referring to adopting AI courses as a milestone, Vaishnaw said: “We have thousands of courses and some of those are popular. More than one million civil servants have registered for them and about 950,000 have completed the courses.”
The IndiaAI businesses Global Acceleration Programme was started by the government to support and provide chances for domestic AI businesses in the European market. The four-month program was started in partnership with HEC Paris and Station F.
According to Vaishnaw, the nation is developing fundamental courses in AI and data for senior secondary and upper secondary students, with an emphasis on Tier-II and -III cities.
Using this infrastructure, India will create its own fundamental AI model.
According to him, the administration had received 67 applications, 22 of which were for major language models.
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