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Hans India
24-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
IndiaAI Mission: 34,381 GPUs onboarded from 14 empanelled service providers
New Delhi: India's AI strategy aims to position the country as a global leader in artificial intelligence and as on date, 34,381 GPUs have been onboarded from 14 empanelled service providers, the government informed. The government provides these GPUs at a subsidised cost. The average rate for these GPUs is about Rs 65 per GPU per hour. The price of H100 GPUs, widely used for foundational model training, is Rs 92 per GPU per hour which is significantly lower than the commercial hyper-scaler cloud providers, informed Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. India has a strong information technology ecosystem. It generates annual revenues of more than $250 billion and provides employment to more than 6 million people. Global rankings such as Stanford AI rankings place India among the top countries in AI skills, capabilities, and policies to use AI. India is also the second-largest contributor to GitHub AI projects, showcasing its vibrant developer community. The government launched IndiaAI mission in March 2024. It is a strategic initiative to establish a robust and inclusive AI ecosystem aligned with India's development goals. The 'IndiaAI Application Development Initiative' aims to develop AI applications for India specific challenges in sectors such as climate change and disaster management, healthcare, agriculture, governance, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities. As on date, 30 (thirty) applications have approved, said the minister. In addition, sector-specific hackathons have been organised in partnership with other ministries and government institutions. 'AIKosh' is a unified data platform integrating datasets from government and non-government sources. The beta version launched in March 2025 currently features over 890 datasets, 208 AI models, and more than 13 development toolkits. 'These resources serve as building blocks for developers, allowing them to focus on core AI functionality instead of recreating modules,' said the minister. The 'IndiaAI Foundation Models' initiative aims to develop India's own Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on Indian datasets and languages. This is to to ensure sovereign capability and global competitiveness in generative AI. The IndiaAI Mission received more than 500 proposals. In the first phase, 4 start-ups have been selected. They include Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani AI and Gan AI. The 'IndiaAI FutureSkills' aims to develop AI skilled professionals in India by increasing the number of graduates, post-graduate and PhDs in AI domain. Over 200 students have received fellowships in the first year, with 26 partner institutes onboarding PhD students. It also envisions setting up Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India.
Time of India
04-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Four of IndiaAI's responsible AI solutions to go live on AIKosha from September
Safe & Trusted AI and IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are among the seven pillars of the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI Mission. The others are the IndiaAI Compute Capacity, IndiaAI Innovation Centre, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI FutureSkills and IndiaAI Startup Financing. The government had last year invited expressions of interest for RAI tools and received about 2,000 applications. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Four of the eight responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) solutions developed under the IndiaAI Mission 's safe and trusted AI pillar are expected to go live on the mission's AIKosha portal between September and December. The government is also aiming to make available the 30 projects selected under the application development initiative within a month as 'try models', said an RAI solutions to be made available are in areas such as machine unlearning, bias mitigation, risk assessment and fairness assessment, IndiaAI Mission chief operating officer Kavita Bhatia told ET on the sidelines of a consultation on AI readiness assessment methodologies in Delhi on detection tools are still in the works, according to her. More than 400 applications have been received for areas like deepfake detection tools and watermarking of AI-generated content. These are under evaluation and the aim is to make all such tools open-source, she 30 selected AI applications under the application development initiative are under the themes of healthcare, agriculture, climate change management, governance and learning & Trusted AI and IndiaAI Application Development Initiative are among the seven pillars of the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI Mission. The others are the IndiaAI Compute Capacity, IndiaAI Innovation Centre, IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI FutureSkills and IndiaAI Startup government had last year invited expressions of interest for RAI tools and received about 2,000 applications. The eight selected participants include IIT Jodhpur , IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi. More than 900 submissions were received for the application development initiative, according to the electronics and information technology ministry's statements.'We need to assess what is the readiness with regard to making AI applications that are inclusive, that are responsible, that are safe, that are trustworthy and which follow the ethical framework,' said Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission, speaking at the support for AI models, computing and language application programming interfaces are there, the solutions need to be fair and meet real needs on the ground, he said, reiterating that India's approach to AI regulation is pro-innovation and light-touch with a focus on preventing government is collaborating with UNESCO and Ikigai Law to produce a report on an AI readiness methodology for India. The final stakeholder consultation for this was held in Delhi on Tuesday. Consultations had earlier been held in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Guwahati.'Globally, we know that AI systems are being used to allocate welfare benefits, screen job applications, generate educational content and even inform judicial and healthcare decisions,' said Tim Curtis, director and UNESCO representative for the UNESCO regional office in Delhi. 'In India's context, if these tools are not designed with a whole spectrum of users in mind, including marginalised communities, they really do risk leaving a lot of people behind.'The risks could undermine AI's immense benefits if proactive measures are not taken for responsible development and usage, he added.
