Vaishnaw Claims India's Local Foundational AI Platform to be Ready in Ten Months

Vaishnaw Claims India's Local Foundational AI Platform to be Ready in Ten Months
India's Foundational AI Model to Be Ready in 10 Months: Vaishnaw

On February 4, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that a local foundational AI platform is anticipated in ten months, and that India may be able to develop its own high-end processing hardware, known as GPUs, in the next three to five years.

Vaishnaw stated that the government will provide 18,000 top-tier GPU-based computing facilities for AI development to entities in the nation within the next few days and anticipates India's own AI platform within ten months during a Budget Roundtable 2025 hosted by two renowned media houses.

According to Vaishnav, the Ministry is considering three different solutions, each of which would include building the country's own GPU using a chipset that is reasonably priced and either open source or licensed. The entire world has adopted this strategy, which will enable each nation to have its own GPU within three to five years.

Surge in GPU’s Demand

In the past, multimedia content processing involving several computational operations, such as gaming and video processing, was handled by GPUs (graphics processing units). However, the global demand for AI has caused a sharp increase in the demand for GPUs, and the US chip manufacturer Nvidia controls more than 80% of the industry. According to the minister, Indian Railways increased the confirmed ticket rate by 27% by leveraging AI models, and a number of start-ups have grown really effectively, albeit in comparison to ChatGPT.

According to him, developing artificial intelligence models requires high-end computing equipment, which can only be purchased by wealthy individuals. However, the government has put in place a system that allows everyone to access computing infrastructure at a reasonable cost. Vaishnaw added that researchers, academicians, companies, institutions, and IITs may all access this computing capability and use it to launch foundational models.

When asked whether India would have its own foundational model for AI, Vaishnaw responded, "10 months is the outer limit."  According to him, there are numerous research papers that essentially discuss mathematical techniques that, for instance, the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has employed to make the entire process extremely effective.

Make In India Churning Jobs for Indians

According to Vaishnaw, 12 lakh direct and indirect jobs have been created by the government's mobile manufacturing division under the Make in India initiative. In order to demonstrate the degree of quality and accuracy attained by Indian electronic industries, he displayed a metallic object that was made up of numerous precisely linked pieces, without any apparent lines.

He claimed that it took three years for a well-known Indian business to reach the high degree of accuracy needed by a vendor to supply parts for the production of Apple and Samsung's high-end smartphones.

India now produces a number of goods and parts needed in the mobile phone sector, such as chargers, battery packs, various mechanics, USB cables, keypads, display assemblies, camera modules, lithium-ion batteries, speakers and microphones, vibrator motors, and more, according to the minister.


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