India AI mission' to acquire advanced AI chips could throw some surprises. None of the four service partners of Cloud major Oracle — Ishan Infotech, Path Infotech, Cyfuture India and Unicloud Labs — could make it to the technical evaluation round this week.
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This may hinder the American cloud company's ability to empanel with the much-coveted Mission to offer AI compute capacity in India through public-private partnership and bid for future projects.
Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is standing strong with seven service partners who made presentations before the Mission's board hearing on technical requirements on Tuesday at the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) in New Delhi. These were CloudThat Technologies, CMS Computers, Hostin Services, i2k2 Networks, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies and Vensysco Technologies.
The third hyperscaler Microsoft Azure has stuck to its only partner Yotta Data Services to provide AI compute under the Mission. Google Cloud did not participate in the Mission.
Bhavesh Goswami, founder and chief executive, CloudThat, in response to ET's queries in a statement said, «CloudThat is an advanced tier Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner. These GPUs, managed through AWS, are expected to consist of 70% Nvidia H100 GPUs, with