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Vaishnaw stated that the government will provide 18,000 high-end GPU-based compute facilities for AI development in the coming days, with India's own AI platform expected within 10 months
The minister stated that several startups have successfully developed AI models, though on a smaller scale compared to ChatGPT
According to the IndianAI Mission website, the Centre is also inviting applications from Indian startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs to collaborate on building foundational AI models trained on Indian datasets
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has reportedly said that India may develop graphics processing units (GPUs) within the next 3-5 years as part of India AI Mission.
He added that a local foundational AI platform is expected to be available in 10 months.
According to PTI, Vaishnaw stated that the government will provide 18,000 high-end GPU-based compute facilities for AI development in the coming days, with India’s own AI platform expected within 10 months.
According to the IndianAI Mission website, the Centre is also inviting applications from Indian startups, researchers, and entrepreneurs to collaborate on building foundational AI models trained on Indian datasets.
“We are working on multiple, actually three options, where we take a chipset which is at some reasonable level available in open source or available as a licensed thing, and then build upon that to build our own GPU. That’s the approach the entire world has followed and that approach will be able to give us India’s own GPU in the time frame of three to five years,” Vaishnaw said.
GPUs were initially used for processing multimedia content, including gaming and video processing, due to their high computing power. However, with the surge in AI demand globally, their necessity has grown exponentially. US chipmaker Nvidia currently dominates the market with over 80% share.
The minister stated that several startups have successfully developed AI models, though on a smaller scale compared to ChatGPT. Additionally, Indian Railways has leveraged AI to improve the confirmed ticket rate by 27%.
“We already embarked 18,000 GPUs, very high-end GPUs, and out of that, 10,000 are already available. So this 18,000 compute power will be rolled out in a couple of days. The tender process got completed last week, and in another couple of days, 3-4 days, this will be rolled out,” Vaishnaw said.
He said that high end computing infrastructure is the basic requirement to develop artificial intelligence models which can be bought by those who have deep pockets but the government has put in a mechanism, where people can access computing infrastructure at low cost.
“The researchers, startups, academicians, colleges, IITs, all of them can have access to this compute power, and they can start foundational models,” Vaishnaw said.
He added that numerous research papers contain mathematical algorithms, which companies like China’s DeepSeek have leveraged to enhance efficiency in the AI development process.
