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Technology: India to have its AI LLM model this year, says Vaishnaw

Technology: India to have its AI LLM model this year, says Vaishnaw

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Virendra Pandit

 

New Delhi: Catching up with select nations in the global race, India has also boarded the Artificial Intelligence (AI) bandwagon and will create its own foundational model this year.

India’s large language model (LLM) is expected to be ready within the next 10 months.

Making modern technology accessible to all is the economic thinking of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Ours is the most affordable computing facility, at this point,” Union Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.

India will create its own foundational model in the next 10 months, he said, outlining the country’s AI ambitions, as he announced the empanelment of 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUs) under a common computing facility, the media reported.

Making a slew of announcements, that promise to put India on the global AI center stage, Vaishnaw also said an AI safety institution will be started.

Asked about privacy concerns around China’s just introduced Deepseek, he said India will host it on Indian servers to address concerns regarding privacy. 

Addressing a press conference on the India AI Mission, Vaishnaw said, “We have created the framework, and it is being launched today. Our focus is on building AI models that maintain the Indian context and culture.” 

He said the project will be supported by the India AI Compute Facility, which has procured 18,693 GPUs to facilitate the creation of an LLM designed specifically for India. 

Vaishnaw emphasized India’s AI capabilities by comparing the country’s infrastructure to global benchmarks. “DeepSeek AI was trained on 2,000 GPUs, ChatGPT was trained on 25,000 GPUs, and we now have 15,000 high-end GPUs available. India has a robust computing facility that will support our AI ambitions.” 

A shared computing facility with 18,000 GPUs has been launched, designed to be accessible to startups, researchers, and developers. Around 10,000 GPUs are already operational, he said. 

“The technical partners started working and investing well before the finalization. This facility will be available for everyone to use,” Vaishnaw added. 

GPU providers for this initiative include Jio Platforms, Tata Communications, Yotta, and NextGen Data Centre. For comparison, DeepSeek was trained using 2,000 GPUs.

A key goal of the India AI Mission is to develop a domestically-produced AI model tailored to the country’s linguistic and cultural diversity. The government has called for proposals from AI startups, with six major developers now working on models expected to be ready in 4–6 months, with a maximum timeline of 8–10 months. 

“With algorithmic efficiency, we can create these models in a much shorter time frame. We will have a world-class foundational AI model in just a few months,” the minister said.

 

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