The Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has authorized the comprehensive national-level IndiaAI mission, with a financial allocation of INR10,371.92 crore, furthering the objective of Making AI in India and Making AI Work for India.
The IndiaAI goal aims to create a broad ecosystem that stimulates AI innovation by means of strategic collaborations and partnerships with both public and private entities. It will promote the responsible, inclusive growth of India’s AI ecosystem by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, building local AI capabilities, drawing top AI talent, facilitating industry collaboration, offering startup risk capital, guaranteeing socially significant AI projects, and supporting ethical AI.
The Digital India Corp.’s (DIC) IndiaAI Independent Business Division (IBD) will carry out the mission. Its constituent parts consist of:
IndiaAI Compute Capacity: To meet the growing needs of the country’s quickly developing AI start-ups and research environment, the IndiaAI compute pillar will create a top-tier, scalable AI computing ecosystem. The ecosystem will include a public-private partnership-built AI compute infrastructure with at least 10,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Additionally, pre-trained models and AI as a service will be made available to AI entrepreneurs through an AI marketplace. It will serve as a one-stop shop for supplies needed for cutting-edge AI research.
India AI Innovation Center: In key industries, the IndiaAI Innovation Center will create and implement native Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and domain-specific fundamental models.
IndiaAI Datasets Platform: This platform will make it easier for AI innovators to obtain high-quality, non-personal datasets. To give Indian startups and researchers a one-stop shop for easy access to non-personal datasets, a unified data platform would be created.
IndiaAI Application Development Initiative: This initiative aims to advance the use of AI in important areas for problem statements derived from State Departments, Central Ministries, and other organizations. The initiative’s main goals will be to create, scale, and encourage the use of effective AI solutions that have the potential to significantly alter society and the economy.
IndiaAI FutureSkills: This initiative aims to reduce obstacles to enrollment in AI programs by expanding the number of AI courses offered in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Additionally, fundamental level courses will be taught at Data and AI Labs that will be established in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities around India.
IndiaAI Startup Financing: The goal of the IndiaAI Startup Financing pillar is to help deep-tech AI firms grow faster and give them easier access to capital so they may pursue innovative AI projects.
Safe & Trusted AI: This pillar recognizes the need for sufficient controls to promote the responsible development, application, and adoption of AI. It will facilitate the implementation of Responsible AI projects, such as the creation of local frameworks and tools, inventors’ self-evaluation checklists, and other policies and governance structures.
The authorised IndiaAI Mission will foster innovation and develop local capabilities to protect India’s digital sovereignty. Additionally, it will open up highly skilled job possibilities to capitalize on the nation’s demographic dividend. India will be better able to compete internationally and show the rest of the world how this revolutionary technology can be applied for social good through the IndiaAI Mission.
