Evaluation of AI LLMs Nearing Completion: Minister of Electronics & IT

On Monday, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that the evaluation of applications of AI large language model (LLM) is in the final stage. The government will be in a position to grant awards to the first few LLM model teams, who will get funding subsequently under the artificial intelligence (AI) Mission.

“A large number of industries have started creating AI applications and many of them have been recognised by the AI mission," Vaishnaw told reporters on Monday. 

"We see huge adoption of AI technology by industries. My interaction with with education, healthcare and industrial organisations shows that people are adapting AI in a very big way for multiple uses. So that's a very positive thing and that also means we will be able to get the most productive advantage out of this AI revolution," he added.

In February this year, Vaishnaw stated that India will get its first foundational Artificial Intelligence model in a maximum of 10 months.

The government aims to have an open-source model similar to that of some countries. The government approved the AI mission last year with an allocation of more than Rs 10,000 crore.India is quickly creating a robust AI computing and semiconductor infrastructure for its growing digital economy.An emphasis of this mission is to develop a high-end common computing facility with 18,693 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) making it one of the largest AI compute infrastructure in the world.

After the first 14000 GPUs that we got as a part of the AI mission, the empanelment process for the second tranch is on and we are getting equally good response for the second tranch also which means that our startup community, our AI researchers will get a very large GPU compute facility in coming days," Vaishnaw said.