At the ‘IndiaAI – Make AI in India, Make AI work for India’ event, it was announced that India’s national common compute capacity on cloud has crossed 34000 GPUs.

• The computing capacity added will boost the IndiaAI Mission by taking  a significant leap toward strengthening indigenous AI capabilities.

About IndiaAI Mission

• IndiaAI Mission is India’s own Foundation Model launched in the year 2024, to strengthen AI capabilities.
• Implementation Agency : IndiaAI, an Independent Business Division under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), is the implementation agency for the IndiaAI Mission
• Objective: To bolster India’s global leadership in AI, foster technological self-reliance, ensure ethical and responsible AI deployment, and democratize the benefits of AI across all strata of society.
• Pillars: The Mission has 7 key pillars aimed at building a comprehensive AI ecosystem encompassing,
  • The IndiaAI Foundation Model: It aims to develop and deploy indigenous foundational models trained on India-specific data.
    • Sarvam AI: It will build India’s Sovereign LLM Ecosystem developing an open source 120 billion parameter AI model to enhance governance and public service access
    • Three new startups (Soket AI; Gnani AI; Gan AI) have been selected for building India’s own Foundation Model.
  • Compute Capacity: It includes establishing a state-of-the-art AI compute infrastructure with thousands of GPUs.
    • Significance: It is crucial to develop indigenous foundational models and AI solutions tailored to the Indian context.
  • Datasets: To create a platform for accessible and diverse Indian datasets to train AI models.
    • 367 datasets have been uploaded to AI Kosh.
  • IndiaAI Applications Development: It develop, scales, and promotes impactful AI solutions for various sectors, including healthcare, education, and agriculture.
    • Example: IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon
  • Future Skills: It aims to advance AI education at all academic levels by establishing Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities
  • Startup Financing: This pillar focuses on providing financial support and resources to AI startups, encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in the AI space. 
  • IndiaAI Innovation Centre: It focuses on developing and deploying indigenous Large Multimodal Models and domain-specific foundational model