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India AI Mission: Boosting AI Development
- 08 Mar 2024
On 7th March, Union Cabinet approved India AI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for 5 years.
Key Points
- Funding Allocation: Cabinet approved Rs 10,372 crore for India AI Mission with funds to subsidize private AI compute centres and support AI startups.
- Computing Capacity: Government aims to set up 10,000 GPUs through viability gap funding, where priority on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for advanced AI applications will be placed.
- Sector Focus: Mission targets agriculture, healthcare, and education sectors.
- AI Curation Units (ACUs): 50-line ministries to develop ACUs and framework for curating non-personal data to be established.
- AI Marketplace: Proposal includes AI marketplace for AI services and pre-trained models which are aimed at AI application developers.
- Public-Private Partnership: Public AI Compute infrastructure to be developed through PPP model with 50% viability gap funding.
- Support for Startups: Government to finance deeptech startups at an allocation of Rs 2,000 crore for startup support.
- Innovation Research Centre: IndiaAI Innovation Research Centre to develop large foundational models with a focus on indigenous models.
- Datasets Platform: IndiaAI Datasets Platform to host high-quality AI ready datasets.
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