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IndiaAI opens a common compute facility of 18,693 GPUs and calls for Indian models

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Source: PIBAlso reported by All India Radio News (newsonair.gov.in), Digital India (MeitY)

Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on 30 January 2025 that the IndiaAI Mission had secured a common computing facility of 18,693 GPUs from empanelled cloud providers, to be opened to startups, researchers and developers at subsidised rates. He also opened a call for proposals to build Indian foundation models and announced an IndiaAI Safety Institute.

Why it matters

Indian startups and researchers gained access to government-subsidised GPUs, and companies could bid for state support to train domestic foundation models.

When
30 Jan 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0064
Where
India
Who
MeitY, IndiaAI; Ashwini Vaishnaw
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from PIB and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at PIB

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0064: “IndiaAI opens a common compute facility of 18,693 GPUs and calls for Indian models.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Jan 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/in-indiaai-compute-18693-gpus-2025-01/ (source: PIB).

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