AI Mission, hike in DA get Cabinet nod
NEW DELHI : The Union cabinet on Thursday approved an India AI Mission, raised dearness allowance (DA) for central employees and pensioners and extended its flagship cooking gas subsidy scheme, clearing a slew of decisions ahead of the upcoming general elections. The ₹10,372 crore India AI Mission will aim to build a base of graphic processing units (GPUs), multi-modal domain-specific large language models (LLMs), and a unified data platform. It will offer an open-source database of non-personal data that can be used to train AI models and market artificial intelligence (AI) applications commercially.
“A major element of this mission will be creation of 10,000 GPUs of compute capacity through a public-private partnership, which will be required for developing a high-end AI compute ecosystem. This will create a kind of a marketplace for AI, which will offer it as a service for promoting research and development (R&D), startups, universities and academia. This will catapult India’s AI ecosystem in the coming years," Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal told reporters.
Two to three innovation centres will be created to develop LLMs, Goyal said, adding the unified data platform will be a “one-stop solution" to make data available to startups and researchers. "PM Modi has democratised technology. With AI mission, he will make compute power available to innovators, startups, students, and educational institutions," IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
“AI is poised to be the kinetic enabler for India’s digital economy. This programme will catalyze India’s AI ecosystem and position it as a force shaping the future of AI for India and the world. AI is one of the greatest inventions of our time, India will play a major role in
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