Govt holding expert consultations on development of indigenous chipset: Ashwini Vaishnaw

As part of the IndiaAI Mission, the government is also working on developing the country's own foundational AI model.

The Indian government is holding extensive consultations with experts on the development of an indigenous chipset, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said on March 6.

"We are also working on developing our own chipsets, as we finalise the program. We are doing extensive consultations with experts. In the coming 3-4 years, we will have our own GPUs competing with the world," Vaishnaw said.

He made the remarks while addressing the media at the launch of the GPU portal and AI Kosha, a non-personal datasets platform under the IndiaAI Mission.

Speaking about the datasets platform—designed to help startups and researchers develop AI technologies such as large language models (LLMs)—Vaishnaw noted that it currently includes datasets on agriculture, logistics, weather forecasting, and Bhashini. The government has also invited private companies to contribute to the platform.

Additionally, the IT ministry launched the IndiaAI GPU access portal, which currently provides access to 14,000 GPUs. "Every quarter we will add more compute. This will create opportunities for everybody," Vaishnaw said.

As part of the IndiaAI Mission, the government is also working on developing the country's own foundational AI model.

"The government has received 67 applications. Our team is inundated with applications, and we are figuring out how to evaluate these applications," Vaishnaw said, adding that 3-5 applications will be selected.

"A significant portion of the compute available today will be earmarked for development of these foundational models," he added.