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Time of India
24-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
India's IT ecosystem employs over 6 million people: Govt
New Delhi, India has a strong information technology ecosystem which generates annual revenues of more than $250 billion and provides employment to more than 6 million people, the Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Global rankings such as Stanford AI rankings place India among the top countries in AI skills, capabilities, and policies to use AI. India is also the second-largest contributor to GitHub AI projects, showcasing its vibrant developer community, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada said in a written reply in Lok Sabha. He pointed out that India's AI strategy is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to democratise the use of technology. It aims to address India-centric challenges, create economic and employment opportunities for all Indians. India's AI strategy aims to position India as a global leader in artificial intelligence. The government launched the IndiaAI mission in March 2024. It is a strategic initiative to establish a robust and inclusive AI ecosystem aligned with India's development goals. The minister highlighted the seven-pillar strategy that the government is implementing under the IndiaAI Mission, which includes IndiaAI Compute Capacity aimed at providing high-end compute power (GPUs) to all, including MSMEs and startups, at an affordable cost. IndiaAI Foundation Models project has also been launched to develop India's Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on Indian datasets and languages. This is to ensure sovereign capability and global competitiveness in generative AI. To develop large datasets for training AI models, AIKosh has been developed as a unified data platform integrating datasets from government and non-government sources. IndiaAI Application Development Initiative has also been launched to develop AI applications for India-specific challenges in sectors such as climate change and disaster management, healthcare, agriculture, governance, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities. IndiaAIFutureSkills project has been rolled out to develop AI-skilled professionals in India by increasing the number of graduates, post-graduates and PhDs in the AI domain. It also envisions setting up Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India. IndiaAI Startup Financing has been set up to provide financial assistance to AI start-ups. Besides, the Government is laying emphasis on safe and trusted AI to balance innovation with strong governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI adoption, the minister added.
Hans India
24-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
IndiaAI Mission: 34,381 GPUs onboarded from 14 empanelled service providers
New Delhi: India's AI strategy aims to position the country as a global leader in artificial intelligence and as on date, 34,381 GPUs have been onboarded from 14 empanelled service providers, the government informed. The government provides these GPUs at a subsidised cost. The average rate for these GPUs is about Rs 65 per GPU per hour. The price of H100 GPUs, widely used for foundational model training, is Rs 92 per GPU per hour which is significantly lower than the commercial hyper-scaler cloud providers, informed Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. India has a strong information technology ecosystem. It generates annual revenues of more than $250 billion and provides employment to more than 6 million people. Global rankings such as Stanford AI rankings place India among the top countries in AI skills, capabilities, and policies to use AI. India is also the second-largest contributor to GitHub AI projects, showcasing its vibrant developer community. The government launched IndiaAI mission in March 2024. It is a strategic initiative to establish a robust and inclusive AI ecosystem aligned with India's development goals. The 'IndiaAI Application Development Initiative' aims to develop AI applications for India specific challenges in sectors such as climate change and disaster management, healthcare, agriculture, governance, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities. As on date, 30 (thirty) applications have approved, said the minister. In addition, sector-specific hackathons have been organised in partnership with other ministries and government institutions. 'AIKosh' is a unified data platform integrating datasets from government and non-government sources. The beta version launched in March 2025 currently features over 890 datasets, 208 AI models, and more than 13 development toolkits. 'These resources serve as building blocks for developers, allowing them to focus on core AI functionality instead of recreating modules,' said the minister. The 'IndiaAI Foundation Models' initiative aims to develop India's own Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on Indian datasets and languages. This is to to ensure sovereign capability and global competitiveness in generative AI. The IndiaAI Mission received more than 500 proposals. In the first phase, 4 start-ups have been selected. They include Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani AI and Gan AI. The 'IndiaAI FutureSkills' aims to develop AI skilled professionals in India by increasing the number of graduates, post-graduate and PhDs in AI domain. Over 200 students have received fellowships in the first year, with 26 partner institutes onboarding PhD students. It also envisions setting up Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India.
Hans India
23-07-2025
- Business
- Hans India
India's IT ecosystem employs over 6 million people: Govt
New Delhi: India has a strong information technology ecosystem which generates annual revenues of more than $250 billion and provides employment to more than 6 million people, the Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Global rankings such as Stanford AI rankings place India among the top countries in AI skills, capabilities, and policies to use AI. India is also the second-largest contributor to GitHub AI projects, showcasing its vibrant developer community, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada said in a written reply in Lok Sabha. He pointed out that India's AI strategy is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to democratise the use of technology. It aims to address India-centric challenges, create economic and employment opportunities for all Indians. India's AI strategy aims to position India as a global leader in artificial intelligence. The government launched the IndiaAI mission in March 2024. It is a strategic initiative to establish a robust and inclusive AI ecosystem aligned with India's development goals. The minister highlighted the seven-pillar strategy that the government is implementing under the IndiaAI Mission, which includes IndiaAI Compute Capacity aimed at providing high-end compute power (GPUs) to all, including MSMEs and startups, at an affordable cost. IndiaAI Foundation Models project has also been launched to develop India's Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) trained on Indian datasets and languages. This is to ensure sovereign capability and global competitiveness in generative AI. To develop large datasets for training AI models, AIKosh has been developed as a unified data platform integrating datasets from government and non-government sources. IndiaAI Application Development Initiative has also been launched to develop AI applications for India-specific challenges in sectors such as climate change and disaster management, healthcare, agriculture, governance, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities. IndiaAIFutureSkills project has been rolled out to develop AI-skilled professionals in India by increasing the number of graduates, post-graduates and PhDs in the AI domain. It also envisions setting up Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities across India. IndiaAI Startup Financing has been set up to provide financial assistance to AI start-ups. Besides, the Government is laying emphasis on safe and trusted AI to balance innovation with strong governance frameworks to ensure responsible AI adoption, the minister added.
Time of India
17-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Free AI training for 5.5 lakh village entrepreneurs: Ashwini Vaishnaw
The workforce manning the 5,60,000 lakh Common Service Centres across the country, will be imparted free training in Artificial Intelligence (AI), electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday. The move is part of the government's aim to train 10 lakh citizens in advanced digital technologies such as AI, machine learning, data analytics, cybersecurity, AI as part of the India AI Mission Speaking at an event to mark the 16th establishment day of CSCs, which have grown to become one of the world's largest digital service delivery networks, Vaishnaw said VLEs will be trained in the latest technological trends. 'Under the IndiaAI mission, the government has decided to equip 10 lakh people with AI skills. Of this, we will give priority to and train 5.5 lakh VLEs,' Vaishnaw said, urging more village-level entrepreneurs to join the training programme.
Time of India
16-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Sarvam AI will open source its IndiaAI Mission AI models
Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup will be open sourcing the models it is training as part of the IndiaAI Mission , Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan, told will be done under permissible licenses, he said. The company has received the highest subsidy allocated under the IndiaAI Mission so far at Rs 98.68 crore, out of a bill of Rs 246.71 crore for access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs for six months, as per the IndiaAI part of the first phase of approvals, was selected by the IndiaAI mission to initiate the development of an indigenous foundational AI an open source software meeting at IIIT-D on Saturday, Abhishek Singh, chief executive, IndiaAI Mission, in a virtual address, had said that the Government of India-sponsored large language models (LLMs) (including Sarvam's) have been decided to be made open Tuesday, Singh confirmed the same to issue was first raised by Paras Chopra, founder and former chairman of software company Wingify . In a post on microblogging platform X on April 27, he had said, "So you're telling me that Deepseek with private funds can release an open source model, but govt awarding Rs 220 crores of public funds to Sarvam isn't asking for the same? This is tax payers money, so the full pipeline ought to be open source!"To which another cofounder Pratyush Kumar had responded, "This is not a grant. A gov body will take equity in Sarvam for the compute we receive. And we are committed to building public interest use-cases and enabling the ecosystem in various ways such as hyper-optimising the inferencing costs in India."India gave the cabinet approval for the Rs 10,000-crore IndiaAI Mission in March last year, with a target of procuring over 10,000 part of the IndiaAI mission, the government is incentivising the development of LLMs built by startups like Sarvam, Gnani, Gan, and Soket AI Labs with investment capital and other support. The move is aimed at building up India's AI Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, on June 28 revealed that out of 506 proposals received by the IndiaAI Mission for building foundation AI models, a striking 43 are specifically dedicated to building LLMs, underscoring the nation's strategic emphasis on sovereign and culturally relevant was speaking at a panel discussion at the AI for India Summit 2025, organised by AI4India in Bengaluru.
