India to create AI foundational model in ten months, build own GPU within four years: Ashwini Vaishnaw

"We already embarked 18,000 GPUs, very high-end GPUs, and out of that, 10,000 are already available. "The researchers, startups, academicians, colleges, IITs, all of them can have access to this compute power, and they can start foundational models," Vaishnaw said. When asked about when will India have its own AI foundational model, Vaishnaw said "10 months is the outer limit." During the interaction, the minister countered allegations levelled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and said that licence raj from 1950-1990 killed the entire manufacturing and production ecosystem in the country and now the Make in India program of the government has been a big success. Vaishnaw said under the government mobile manufacturing segment under the Make in India has created 12 lakh direct and indirect jobs.