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BOOSTING AI CAPABILITIES: INDIA’S COMPUTATIONAL DRIVE
Why in the News?
- The Indian government aims to establish sovereign AI capabilities through its Artificial Intelligence Mission.
- Computational capacity development is a crucial component, fostering both government and public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives.
- PM emphasizes utilizing AI in agriculture, healthcare, education, and startups for enhanced services.
Source: Medium
Source: MediumAbout AI Mission:
- National Supercomputing Mission: Targeting 10,000 to 30,000 GPUs under PPP, and an additional 1,000 to 2,000 GPUs through the PSU Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
- Public Infrastructure : Intention to create a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) from GPU assembly, offering startups cost-effective access to computational capacity.
- Data Sets : Government also working on creating datasets, proposing the India Datasets platform to share non-personal and anonymized datasets for AI and research.
- Incentives :The proposal explores diverse incentive structures for private companies, including capital expenditure subsidy, operational expense incentives, and “usage” fee.
