Since Jan 23, 2025, DeepSeek, a low-cost foundation model from China, shook up the AI industry. It is an open-source model that has been built at a fraction of the cost of its US competitors. That sent Nvidia stock on a downward spiral. DeepSeek was trained on inferior GPUs compared to ChatGPT. The event also triggered an export ban on the Chinese models. In India, there is a discussion whether the country is losing in the AI race for want of a locally developed LLM.
As part of its AI Mission, the Centre has received 67 specific proposals to build an India-specific AI foundation model, including 20 LLMs. A high-level technical committee will evaluate these proposals.
The proposals for LLMs are received from Sarvam AI, CoRover.ai and Ola. There are 20 proposals for LLMs. The remaining are sector specific LLM proposals.
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