CIOTechOutlook Team | Saturday, 08 March 2025, 03:10 IST
India will have its own globally competitive graphics processing units (GPUs) in three to four years, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union minister for electronics and information technology, on Thursday.
“We are talking to experts on developing our chipsets,” said Vaishnaw. He was speaking at a media briefing marking a year of the “India AI (artificial intelligence) Mission”.
As part of the launch, the GPU portal and AI Kosha, a non-personal dataset platform, were inaugurated. The cost of using these GPUs was historically low, though — below ₹ 100 an hour when you could apply a 40% profit margin.
The India AI Mission was launched with the aim of setting up, at the beginning, 10,000 GPUs; this was approved for implementation in March last year at an outlay of ₹ 10,738 crore. With the grant of the IndiaAI Compute Portal, 18,000 plus GPUs and other types of AI cloud services will be made available to the startups, application developers, researchers, and students. This will allow end users to access a whole variety of high-end GPUs, making AI research and innovation more conducive in the country.
“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.”
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.”
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.”
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