Union Cabinet approves Rs 10,372-crore India AI mission
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission, aimed at creating computing infrastructure in public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal said, at a press briefing in New Delhi, that the mission will be focussed on seven areas.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitAs many as 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) (compute capacity) will be made available to startups under the PPP model. A marketplace will be created for the same and AI compute will be made available as a service to benefit R&D facilities and AI startups, Goyal said.
Universities and academic institutions working on AI will also benefit. “This compute capacity will help us take a big leap in AI in the coming years,” he said.
Apart from this, two or three innovation centres will also be set up to develop large scale multimodal models and domain specific foundational models.
Under the Mission, the government will aid in building high-end scalable AI computing ecosystems and promote AI applications in critical sectors.
“India AI datasets platform has also been proposed which will streamline non-personal data to benefit artificial intelligence innovation,” Goyal said.
This unified data platform will be developed as a one-stop solution and non-personal data will be made
