Union government is planning to launch the IndiaAI Compute Portal in the coming days in order to allows stakeholders like central ministries and state governments to request compute capacity via this portal, Hindustan Times reported. IndiaAI Compute Pillar has also sent a memo to all union ministries,departments and chief secretaries about the subsidized pricing for compute capacity, network and storage services. Reportedly, the IndiaAI Mission will cover around 40% of the compute costs for ‘eligible users’.
“Very soon, in the coming 7-8 days, we’ll be launching the portal. So when we launch the portal, you’ll come to know,” Moneycontrol recently quoted IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as saying.
IndiaAI mission to provide 14,000GPUs:
Meanwhile, the HT report added that IndiaAI Mission will provide common compute capacity through around 14,000 GPUs after ten shortlisted companies met the lowest bids.
Out of this, 14,000 GPUs are already said to be available with Yotta Data Services, E2E Networks, Tata Communications, and AWS’s managed service providers and the remaining 4,000 GPUs will be purchased with companies like Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters buying the remaining 4,000 GPUs.
Reportedly, 70 percent of the promised GPU are high end like Vidia H100 while the remaining 30 percent is low-end GPUs with lower capacity or older generations.
Yotta Data Services is said to account for the most of compute capacity with 9,216 GPUs that includes 8,192 Nvidia H100 chips. Meanwhile, AWS that bid through tis four managed service providers (CMS Computers, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies, and Vensysco Technologies) will pony up 1,200 low end GPUs that includes 800 AWS Inferentia 2 and 400 Trainium 1 chips.
Furthermore, Jio Platforms has agreed to provide 208 Nvidia H200 GPUs and 104 AMD MI300X GPUs. The company also plans to submit fresh lower bids for other GPUs during continuous empanelment on April 30.
Notably, the Indian government has increased its focus on development of a homegrown artificial intelligence model since the recent rise of China’s DeepSeek, which is said to be developed at a fraction of the cost of leading AI companies and trained on older chips.
The government’s push to procure the new GPUs could be an attempt to provide the researchers and startups the compute required to develop foundational intelligence models that are the backbone of AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini.
