IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has underscored India’s expanding artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, emphasizing the country’s access to high-end computing resources and the feasibility of hosting open-source AI models like DeepSeek while addressing privacy concerns.
“It is an open-source model. Like LLaMA (LLM by Meta), which is open source, this too can be hosted on Indian servers.Data privacy issues regarding DeepSeek can be addressed by hosting open-source models on Indian servers,” Vaishnaw said during his address at the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave.
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India to have its own AI model
Vaishnaw also announced that India will develop its own generative AI model, saying the model will be powered by the India AI Compute Facility. The minister compared the computational power used in training different AI models.
“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 now has a robust compute facility that will support our AI ambitions,” he said.
India AI Compute Facility has secured [nearly] 19,000 GPUs to develop a LLM designed specifically for the country. Out of these, 15,000 are high-end. With this, the government has overreached its target of 10,000 GPUs.
“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,” Vaishnaw stated.
This strategy enables India to harness advanced AI technology while safeguarding its data and adhering to local regulations.
“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.
By strengthening high-performance computing infrastructure, Indian researchers and developers will have the resources to train and deploy advanced AI models.
