The cabinet approved the IndiaAI mission in March, and now the government is seeking proposals to recruit AI service providers for the project. The mission’s value is Rs 10,372 crore. The initiative is looking for data centres and cloud providers to supply cutting-edge artificial intelligence computing resources, such as storage, accelerators, GPUs, and TPUs, to organisations in the academic, startup, and government sectors. Competitive rates will be decided through a bidding procedure, and these services will be offered at those rates.
The Digital India Corporation is leading the charge under MeitY’s IndiaAI Mission, which will provide access to more than 10,000 GPUs to foster the growth of an AI ecosystem. A Request for Empanelment (RFE) was released for service providers to accomplish this aim.
Such infrastructure is more important than ever before because of the increasing worldwide demand for graphics processing unit (GPU)-powered servers, which process data more efficiently than CPU-based servers. Compared to nations with a strong GPU presence, the alleged cost of GPU-based cloud services in India is twice as high.
Selected vendors will supply critical HPC, networking, and storage capabilities to back projects like building big language models and AI apps like ChatGPT, as stated in MeitY’s bid document.
