India has announced AI Mission in December 2023. The Cabinet may soon approve a fund of Rs 10000 crore plus. There would be a Sovereign AI programme.

There would be capacity building both within the government and through PPP or public private partnership.

The aim of AI Mission is building the computing powers of AI within the country. It will benefit the startups and entrepreneurs. It will promote AI applications.

The country wants to build a compute capacity between 10,000 GPUs and 30,000 GPUs (under the PPP programme). There would additional 1000-2000 GPUs under C-DAC.

The government wants to encourage private computing centres. They can charge a ‘usage’ fee.

An AI system requires computing capacity or compute. It also requires algorithmic innovations. It, in addition, requires datasets.

The government is working on building datasets and making them available to Indian startups.