The Govt proposes to fund 50 per cent of the cost of creating AI compute infrastructure in the country under India AI Mission (funds allocated Rs.10372 crore). The compute capacity will be created as public-private partnership (PPP). There will be GPU based servers for startups and innovation centers.

The target is to establish at least 10,000 GPUs worth of AI compute capacity in the country. GPUs are essential for creating AI models as these require large scale computing, which cannot be done by CPUs.

To expedite the process, the government is also looking at the viability gap funding.

The government for its own use is planning an independent capacity through the National Supercomputing Mission.

We have a large number of STEM-trained graduates. Many of them have exposure to AI. We thus have the right type of manpower to use AI for real life use cases.