India Expands National AI Infrastructure

  • 31 May 2025

On 30th May 2025, Government highlighted the leap in India’s AI capacity at the ‘IndiaAI – Make AI in India’ event, boosting compute power, data access, and indigenous AI innovation.

Key Points

  • GPU Expansion: India’s national compute strength now exceeds 34,000 GPUs, following the addition of 15,916 GPUs to support large-scale AI development.
  • New AI Model Developers: Three startups—Soket AI, Gnani AI, and Gan AI—will develop India-specific multilingual foundational models under the IndiaAI Mission.
  • Model Capabilities:
    • Soket AI: 120B parameter open-source model for defense, education, healthcare.
    • Gnani AI: 14B parameter voice AI model for real-time multilingual processing.
    • Gan AI: 70B parameter model aiming for superhuman TTS capabilities.
  • Open Data Push: 367 datasets now live on AI Kosh, India’s AI open-data repository.
  • Startup Goals: Selected startups urged to aim for top-5 global rank in their domains.
  • Public Use LLMs: Sarvam AI earlier chosen to build a 120B parameter LLM for Citizen Connect 2047 & AI4Pragati.