The Union Cabinet on March 7 approved a Rs 10,371.92-crore artificial intelligence (AI) programme, aimed at creating computing infrastructure in public-private partnership mode.
Under the India AI program which the Cabinet approved, the government will aid in building high-ending scalable AI computing ecosystem, undertake the development and deployment of indigenous large multimodal models; promote AI applications in critical sectors and so on.
Additionally, under the India AI program, support will also be given to accelerate deeptech AI startups. Work will also be taken up to implement responsible AI projects including development of indigenous tools and frameworks, and so on, according to a government statement.
After the announcement of the approval of the IndiaAI mission, minister for electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “With AI mission, he will make compute power available to innovators, startups, students, and educational institutions.
Minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar said, “AI is one of the greatest inventions of our time, this program will position us as a force shaping the future of AI for India and for the world. “
He had then said, “The quantum of funds is more than Rs 10,000 crore. It will be presented before the cabinet for approval soon. It will include setting up of graphic processing units (GPUs) in PPP mode with data centres in the private space and public data centres under C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing).”
Chandrasekhar also said that C-DAC’s PARAM supercomputers will also be used under this plan to boost the artificial intelligence computing capacity.
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