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Union Minister
@AshwiniVaishnaw has just laid out the next phase of the India AI mission and the number of GPUs we have to build foundational models - a common compute facility for startups and researchers
"I am very happy to say, that against 10,000- gpus, we have actually empanelled 18,693 gpus"
"Our startups researchers, academia, they all want to access compute facility. that's why in the India AI mission we have taken the common compute as the most important part of the mission"
12,896 are (Nvidia) H100s, 1,480 are (Nvidia) H200s -- the most powerful GPUs.
Overall net high end GPUs we have 15,000 GPUs in the entire process.
To give context, DeepSeek was trained on 2,000 GPUs
Ashwini Vaishnaw: This will be used for creating AI models, distillation processes, new algorithms
Roughly, 10,000 GPUs (out of the 18,693) are available today.
"The second big mission of the IndiaAI mission was to develop an AI model. Our teams have been working with startups, academia"
"We have now created the framework which will be launched today. We are calling for proposals to develop our own foundational models, where the Indian context, the Indian languages, the culture of our country where the biases can be removed. Where the datasets, for our country, for our citizens -- that process will start today"
"We believe that there are at least 6 major developers who can develop AI models in the 6-8 months on the outer limit, and 4-6 months on a more optimistic estimate"