New Delhi:
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday praised the Narendra Modi-demonic government for focusing on new and emerging technologies, and Union Budget in 2025-26 for setting up the center of excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Allocated Rs.
Talking to NDTV, Mr. Vaishnav, who is the IT Minister, said: “It was very important to get complete facilities so that researchers, academics, start-ups would have the opportunity to use those GPUs (graphics processing units), Are -Off -Art … as part of India AI Mission, we focused on getting complete facilities and I am very happy to share that we have already incorporated 18,000 GPUs and it is really really The high-end is on the founder panel. Follow the Union Budget 2025-26 live updates here
The GPU is used to power the data centers required to train the AI ​​model. The number of GPU required for the AI ​​model depends on how advanced the GPU is, how much data is being used to train the model, the size of the model and the developer want to train when it is trained.
In March last year, the Center announced a $ 1.25 billion AI investment, dubbing the Indiai Mission, which includes funding for AI startups and developing its own AI infrastructure.
Shri Vaishnav said that budgetary allocation “India is part of AI missions, as well as creating new centers of excellence because research is going to be a very important part of technology.”
While presenting the Union Budget 2025-26 in the first Lok Sabha in the day, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitarman said: “I announced three centers of excellence in agriculture, health and sustainable cities in 2023. Excellence in intelligence will be established with a total outlay of Rs 500 crore.
Shri Vaishnav also said that the government has seen a Chinese AI-Inaculated Chatbot Deepsek’s algorithm efficiency. He said, “Many such innovations are coming. I can say that our talent is really good and our people and researchers will bring out such innovations in the coming days.”
Deepsek has triggered a dramatic reconsideration at AI spending worldwide, claiming that NVidia costs only two months and $ 6 million to manufacture AI models using NVDia’s low-ups H800 chips. Is.
The download of his app recently crossed the chatgpt of Openai on Apple’s App Store, while the cost and performance of its equipment fulfilled industry beliefs that China was behind American rivals in the AI ​​race.
Recently, Mr. Vaishnav, along with his low -cost AI assistant, praised Deepsac for shaking the region, compared his frugal approach to his government’s efforts to create a local AI model.
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