In a major push for India’s tech sovereignty, the Ministry of Electronics & IT has announced that India’s national AI compute infrastructure has now crossed 34,000 GPUs, marking a giant leap in the country’s AI mission under the IndiaAI initiative.
At the landmark ‘IndiaAI – Make AI in India, Make AI Work for India’ event, Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw unveiled several key initiatives and celebrated the onboarding of three new AI startups tasked with building powerful Indian Foundation Models.
India’s AI Goals Go Global
Shri Vaishnaw urged Indian innovators to aim for the top five global ranks, aligning with PM Narendra Modi’s vision of democratizing technology for all.
“Technology must not remain in the hands of a few. The IndiaAI mission is about access, empowerment, and opportunity for every Indian,” said the Minister.
3 New Startups to Build India’s AI Brains
Following a tough evaluation process, 3 indigenous AI startups have been selected to build large language and voice models trained on India-specific data:
1. Soket AI – Building a 120B parameter model focused on Indian languages for defense, healthcare, and education.
2. Gnani AI – Creating a 14B parameter multilingual Voice AI with real-time reasoning and speech processing.
3. Gan AI – Developing a 70B parameter Superhuman TTS (Text-to-Speech) model targeting global-level benchmarks.
These will support use cases like “2047: Citizen Connect” and “AI4Pragati.” Earlier, Sarvam AI had also been selected to develop India’s first sovereign 120B open-source LLM.
India’s GPU Muscle: 34,333 Units Strong
To power these innovations, the government has expanded its compute base by adding 15,916 GPUs, bringing the total to 34,333 AI-grade GPUs available via public cloud infrastructure.
This will support both training and inference, giving startups and research institutions equitable access to powerful resources.
Leading bidders include:
CyFuture India, Netmagic IT, Vensysco, Yotta, Sify, Ishan Infotech, and Locuz Enterprise Solutions.
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Cybersecurity Gets AI Boost
Winners of the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon (jointly with MHA’s Cyber Crime Coordination Centre) were also announced. The solutions will help automate and enhance the classification of cybercrime reports on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP) using AI tools that understand FIRs, screenshots, and even voice calls.
What is IndiaAI?
IndiaAI is a strategic national mission under MeitY, focusing on foundational models, compute capacity, datasets (367 already uploaded to AI Kosh), safety, and AI talent development.