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India’s Cabinet approves the IndiaAI Mission with Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years
See how this story connectsIndia’s Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the IndiaAI Mission on 7 March 2024 with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years. The mission has seven pillars, including a compute pillar of 10,000 or more GPUs built through public-private partnership, an innovation centre for Indian large multimodal and domain models, a non-personal datasets platform, startup financing and safe and trusted AI tools. The IndiaAI Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation runs it.
Why it matters
Indian startups, researchers and model builders got a funded route to subsidised GPU capacity and government support for building Indian foundation models.
- When
- 7 Mar 2024
- ID
WTA-N-2024-0079- Where
- India
- Who
- Union Cabinet of India, MeitY, Digital India Corporation; Narendra Modi
- Rules involved
- IndiaAI Mission India, In force
Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Press Information Bureau. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.
Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.
Data to measure this
Compare the years before 2024 with the years since in these series. National sources for India come first.
- Startups recognised by DPIIT, by industry, state and yearDPIIT (Startup India), via data.gov.inNumber of startups recognised by DPIIT, by industry, state and year of recognition.
- IndiaAI Compute Portal price calculator (empanelled GPU instances and prices)IndiaAI Mission, MeitYHourly prices in INR for GPU instances offered under the IndiaAI Mission, by accelerator type, provider and term.
- OECD.AI: venture capital investments in AI start-upsOECD.AI (data from Preqin)Venture capital invested in AI start-ups by country and industry, with series for generative AI and AI compute start-ups.
- IndiaAI Mission progress releases (GPU capacity, AIKosh, foundation models)Press Information Bureau / MeitYOfficial progress figures for the IndiaAI Mission: empanelled GPUs, compute prices by GPU category, AIKosh uploads, foundation model proposals and selections.
- Crunchbase company and funding dataCrunchbase · paidPrivate company profiles, funding rounds and acquisitions.
- IEA Energy and AI dataInternational Energy AgencyWorld and regional data-centre capacity, power usage effectiveness, load factor and electricity use.
Cite this story
WTA-N-2024-0079: “India’s Cabinet approves the IndiaAI Mission with Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years.” wheresthe.ai, 7 Mar 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/in-indiaai-mission-cabinet-approval-2024-03/ (source: Press Information Bureau: Cabinet approves over Rs 10,300 crore for IndiaAI Mission).
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