India’s AI mission touches new height with 34k GPUs –

 
Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that significant progress has been made in India AI Mission. Speaking at the India AI Mission – Make AI In India and Make AI for India event in New Delhi, Mr Vaishnaw said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a very clear vision of democratising of technology which means that technology should not be left in the hands of few but it should be accessible to large section of the society. He said, Common compute is very important part of the principle of democratising technology. On the occasion, Mr Vaishnaw also announced the second round of AI Compute Services empanelment through which another 16 thousand Graphic Processing Units- GPUs Common computing facility will be available for Startups, researchers and students. He informed in the first compute facility of around 18 thousand was available and taking this altogether  there is a  facility of around 34 thousand GPUs.