IT min to support development of data for AI models
New Delhi: Union minister of state for information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday said that seven working committees submitted their official report on the Centre’s India AI strategy. The latter includes a multi-year road map to develop an India Datasets platform to collect, organize and build foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models using anonymized data, and also indigenously develop AI compute infrastructure in a public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Addressing the media after submission of the report, Chandrasekhar said, “Two key areas of the India AI programme, apart from support for startups and a very comprehensive skilling programme, are the India datasets platform, and the India AI compute platform. The latter will be a public-private partnership project that will create substantial graphics processing unit (GPU) capacity for startups and researchers to train AI models.
The India datasets platform will be one of the largest and most diverse collections of anonymized datasets to train multi-parameter AI models. India AI will also support the development of AI chips in partnership with the Semicon India programme." On 16 April, Mint reported that while multiple top Indian colleges and institutes are working on building local language generative AI capabilities across a wide range of applications, the lack of availability of compute has been a challenge for researchers in building large AI models.
The lack of available structured data, especially in local Indian languages, is another challenge. Chandrasekhar highlighted that under the India AI report, the Centre is presently in the midst of consultations for the draft National Strategy for Robotics, which was opened for industry consultations
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