Mint Primer | Stargate Wars: Where is India in the AI infra race?
2 months ago

Mint Primer | Stargate Wars: Where is India in the AI infra race?

Live Mint  

Donald Trump has announced a $500-billion venture called Stargate to build AI-focused data centres and other infrastructure in the US. It’s a $500-billion joint venture with OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX to build AI-focused infrastructure including data centres across the US over the next four years—Trump’s first major business initiative since returning to office. China is also innovating fast with AI lab DeepSeek’s R1 open-source reasoning model rivalling OpenAI’s o1 in performance across reasoning tasks and costing less. India is strengthening its AI infrastructure, including RackBank’s 80MW AI-focused data centre in Madhya Pradesh. India has around 150 data centres, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and its IndiaAI Mission, with a ₹10,372 crore budget, focuses on enhancing computing infrastructure, supporting deep-tech startups, and fostering AI development.

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Mint Primer: AI power shift: Can China close the gap with the US?
1 week, 6 days ago

Mint Primer: AI power shift: Can China close the gap with the US?

Live Mint  

If Chinese AI lab Deepseek shook the industry with its open-source, budget-friendly reasoning model earlier this year, another Chinese startup, Monica, is impressing many with its new general-purpose AI agentic model, Manus. Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek disrupted AI with its low-cost reasoning R1 model this year, prompting OpenAI to respond with o3 mini and GPT-4.5. Now, another Chinese startup …

India to produce indigenous GPUs within 3-4 years: Ashwini Vaishnaw
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

India to produce indigenous GPUs within 3-4 years: Ashwini Vaishnaw

India Today  

India's Electronics and Ashwini Vaishnaw, has unveiled plans to develop indigenous Graphics Processing Units within the next three to four years. This initiative is a cornerstone of India's strategy to enhance its artificial intelligence infrastructure and reduce dependency on foreign technology. By focusing on domestic GPU production, India aims to support the burgeoning AI ecosystem and ensure technological self-reliance. CHALLANGES …

AI democratization crucial for India’s global leadership, say experts at Mint AI Summit 2025
3 weeks, 1 day ago

AI democratization crucial for India’s global leadership, say experts at Mint AI Summit 2025

Live Mint  

India must democratize AI to establish itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence, AI experts deliberated at the Mint AI Summit 2025. “Universities, scholars, the government, and enterprises all have vital roles to play in building a strong AI ecosystem.” Metesh Bhati, chief digital and AI officer at Protean eGov Technologies Ltd, urged the government to open datasets to …

Mint Primer | The $300 billion question for India’s IT sector
1 month ago

Mint Primer | The $300 billion question for India’s IT sector

Live Mint  

Industry body Nasscom sees the Indian IT sector surpassing the $300 billion revenue milestone in FY26. The Indian technology industry is expected to grow at 5.1% and add $13.8 billion incremental revenue, taking the total to more than $282.6 billion in FY25, according to Nasscom estimates. While BFSI continues to be the top spender, demand for healthcare & life sciences …

Indranil Banerjie | AI revolution looms: Can India make a difference?
1 month ago

Indranil Banerjie | AI revolution looms: Can India make a difference?

Deccan Chronicle  

While technology has been an economic game changer throughout history, it has perhaps never been as pressing or critical as it is today. This comes from the recognition, stated in the AI Action Summit declaration, that the “rapid development of AI technologies represents a major paradigm shift, impacting our citizens and societies in many ways”. The summit statement called for …

Manish Tewari | India and the global AI race: Winning strategies
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1 month ago

Manish Tewari | India and the global AI race: Winning strategies

Deccan Chronicle  

At the recent Munich Security Conference, US Vice-President J.D. A report by Change Engine ranks India 14th in AI research contributions, accounting for just 1.4 per cent of the global total, while the US and China lead with 30.4 per cent and 22.8 per cent contributions, respectively. Experts suggest that, to secure a competitive position, India must boost its AI …

India is shaping policies for responsible use of AI: Nirmala Sitharaman
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1 month ago

India is shaping policies for responsible use of AI: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Hindu  

India is not merely experimenting with artificial intelligence but is also actively shaping policies to ensure that the technology receives the due attention, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Addressing the sixth convocation ceremony at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam on Saturday, the Minister highlighted how the country is implementing AI at scale across various sectors, emphasising …

Mint Explainer: What will happen if the US restricts chip supply to India?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mint Explainer: What will happen if the US restricts chip supply to India?

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : A measure that prevented open market access to semiconductors created by American companies was one of the last few executive orders signed by outgoing US president Joe Biden about a month ago. The move triggered conversations about the global semiconductor market, US dominance, the lopsided chip industry, and what would happen if the US imposed even more …

India’s AI Strategy Needs a Titanic Shift: Lessons from DeepSeek and China’s AI Leadership
1 month, 2 weeks ago

India’s AI Strategy Needs a Titanic Shift: Lessons from DeepSeek and China’s AI Leadership

The Hindu  

On a North Atlantic Ocean night of April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic glided through the calm waters. These models are one of many LLMs coming out of China as it doubled its LLMs from 79 in 2024 to 200 by the end of 2024 executing its 2017- A New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Planthat details a plan to make China …

AI chips: India must get its basics right to meet this great catch-up challenge
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI chips: India must get its basics right to meet this great catch-up challenge

Live Mint  

It is welcome that India is gearing up to take on the challenge of artificial intelligence. Unlike earlier advances in information technology, whose national origin did not materially affect the ability of people and companies anywhere to use them, AI is seen as an enabler of geopolitical power. As Mint reported on Wednesday, the government has got cracking on a …

India begins to design own AI chip. The tougher part comes next
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

India begins to design own AI chip. The tougher part comes next

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India has taken the first step to develop an AI chip from the ground-up to substitute Nvidia’s powerful processors, which have shaken up the global tech landscape and re-established the US's outsized dominance in the crucial sector. “We are decades behind the US firms on R&D—and semiconductors need billions of dollars of large-scale R&D to build a proprietary …

AI Mission should focus on core tech to avoid errors made in chips, smartphones
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AI Mission should focus on core tech to avoid errors made in chips, smartphones

Live Mint  

The Centre’s India AI Mission, which seeks to bring India up to speed with the US, China and the rest of the world in artificial intelligence, could be pivotal for India to avoid repeating the mistakes it made with semiconductor and mobile phone manufacturing, industry veterans told Mint. Jayanth Kolla, partner at tech advisory firm Convergence Catalyst, added that what’s …

DeepSeek vs Stargate Project: How AI spending is evolving, in charts
1 month, 3 weeks ago

DeepSeek vs Stargate Project: How AI spending is evolving, in charts

Live Mint  

Last month, US President Donald Trump announced the Stargate Project—a venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX that plans to invest up to $500 billion over four years to build new artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US. As per the Stanford AI Index Report 2024, OpenAI spent an estimated $78 million worth of compute resources to train GPT-4, while Google …

DeepSeek debate: Here’s why I’m pessimistic about India’s place in AI race despite a slew of recent announcements
1 month, 3 weeks ago

DeepSeek debate: Here’s why I’m pessimistic about India’s place in AI race despite a slew of recent announcements

Firstpost  

China has shown there is no limit to human enterprise when faced with obstacles if there is determination, but do we have that unity of purpose? The loss of ‘American tech exceptionalism’, as Catherine Thorbecke puts it in Bloomberg, could be the biggest morale booster for nations that are behind the curve in AI breakthroughs such as India. While the …

Made-in India AI soon? Ashwini Vaishnaw says 6 major models expected by year-end as China’s DeepSeek makes global waves
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Made-in India AI soon? Ashwini Vaishnaw says 6 major models expected by year-end as China’s DeepSeek makes global waves

Live Mint  

India is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence, with the government pushing an ambitious plan to develop homegrown AI models within the next ten months. “The AI models built in India will be world-class, capable of competing with the best out there,” Vaishnaw said, highlighting the country’s ambition to catching up with global AI leaders. Companies like homegrown E2E …

Global AI race: India to build own foundational models, to take on ChatGPT, Deepseek
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Global AI race: India to build own foundational models, to take on ChatGPT, Deepseek

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: India on Thursday outlined global AI ambitions with plans to build its own 'foundational model' that could take on the might of ChatGPT, Deepseek R1 and others, as it lined up "most affordable" common compute facility powered by 18,693 GPUs to be used by startups and researchers.India's bold move comes at a time when Chinese company DeepSeek has …

DeepSeek effect: India should build cheaper AI models
1 month, 3 weeks ago

DeepSeek effect: India should build cheaper AI models

New Indian Express  

This shows that countries, especially India, need not depend on advanced hardware and that this R1 model drives home the importance of innovation. The fact that they created this platform with under $6 million investments has shaken the tech CEOs globally highlighting that game changing innovations don’t necessarily need billion-dollar investments, he added. Narendra Bhandari, General Partner, Seafund, a deeptech …

China's ChatGPT-killer DeepSeek has OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Google worried
1 month, 3 weeks ago

China's ChatGPT-killer DeepSeek has OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Google worried

Firstpost  

DeepSeek’s real achievement lies in its ability to develop a cutting-edge AI model while spending a fraction of what its US counterparts have. OpenAI’s development of GPT-4 cost upwards of $100 million, yet DeepSeek claims it spent just $5.6 million to bring DeepSeek-V3 to life While US companies like OpenAI and Meta have opted for proprietary models, keeping their cutting-edge …

China's ChatGPT-killer DeepSeek has OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Google worried
1 month, 3 weeks ago

China's ChatGPT-killer DeepSeek has OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Google worried

Firstpost  

DeepSeek’s real achievement lies in its ability to develop a cutting-edge AI model while spending a fraction of what its US counterparts have. OpenAI’s development of GPT-4 cost upwards of $100 million, yet DeepSeek claims it spent just $5.6 million to bring DeepSeek-V3 to life While US companies like OpenAI and Meta have opted for proprietary models, keeping their cutting-edge …

Mint Quick Edit | An AI race shake-up spells an opportunity for India
2 months ago

Mint Quick Edit | An AI race shake-up spells an opportunity for India

Live Mint  

Its owner claims it cost under $6 million, a fraction of what American LLMs took to create. Since it’s a “reasoning" model, which involves an internal dialogue to spout answers, it could upturn the economics of the AI race. So far, success has required bearing high fixed costs on hardware and training, with relatively low variable costs on output generation. …

Stargate: Building super intelligence
2 months ago

Stargate: Building super intelligence

The Hindu  

In 1941, faced with imminent threats from hostile Axis powers, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a secret assignment known as the Manhattan Project. Announcing ‘Project Stargate’, a multi-billion-dollar initiative aimed at establishing a vast network of AI-optimised data centres and developing increasingly sophisticated generative AI models, Mr. Trump called it “the largest AI infrastructure project in history.” Through this …

Mint Quick Edit | Should Trump’s Stargate inspire India’s own?
2 months ago

Mint Quick Edit | Should Trump’s Stargate inspire India’s own?

Live Mint  

One major announcement that Donald Trump made soon after assuming office as US president was of the country’s Stargate project. Backed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, among others, it aims to expand the artificial intelligence infrastructure in the US. Amid cheers for what looks like a geo-strategic initiative to stay ahead in a global AI “arms race", what stood out …

From chips to Stargate: Can India weather the storm of Trump's AI policy changes?
2 months ago

From chips to Stargate: Can India weather the storm of Trump's AI policy changes?

Live Mint  

A succession of executive orders by the outgoing and the new presidents of the United States have left India’s artificial intelligence and semiconductor businesses and the nation’s policymakers worried. And on 21 January, newly sworn-in president Donald J Trump Jr announced Stargate, a company that Trump said will build “the largest AI infrastructure project in history… to power the next …

Tech Tonic | India should align with OpenAI’s mega AI Stargate Project
2 months ago

Tech Tonic | India should align with OpenAI’s mega AI Stargate Project

Hindustan Times  

Let us get some context at the outset. This investment amount, which defines aspirations of OpenAI’s Stargate Project, is roughly 10% of India’s GDP, or gross domestic product. For chairman Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to credit US President Donald Trump’s election as the pivotal moment for this investment, is perhaps the single biggest indicator of the country’s …

Mint Explainer: Will the $500 billion Stargate plan help the US trump China?
2 months ago

Mint Explainer: Will the $500 billion Stargate plan help the US trump China?

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : Geopolitics continues to dictate global tech policies and strategies. That said, though China-based Baidu Inc.'s Ernie bot may not hold up to OpenAI's ChatGPT, China ranks second in AI and is providing credible competition, attracting $67.2 billion in AI-related private investment in 2023 compared to a mere $7.8 billion for the US, according to the Stanford report. Further, …

Mint Explainer: Will the $500 billion Stargate plan help the US trump China?
2 months ago

Mint Explainer: Will the $500 billion Stargate plan help the US trump China?

Live Mint  

BENGALURU : Geopolitics continues to dictate global tech policies and strategies. That said, though China-based Baidu Inc.'s Ernie bot may not hold up to OpenAI's ChatGPT, China ranks second in AI and is providing credible competition, attracting $67.2 billion in AI-related private investment in 2023 compared to a mere $7.8 billion for the US, according to the Stanford report. Further, …

Tech Titans Flock to India: A Strategic Play for the Future of AI
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tech Titans Flock to India: A Strategic Play for the Future of AI

Live Mint  

Top tech executives are visiting India to explore opportunities for co-creating intellectual properties in tech, as India is the second-largest developer base in the world after the US. With vast sections of the world’s developer ecosystem either based in India or originating in the region, a concerted effort from the Centre is pushing Indian firms to build foundational technologies. This …

Nvidia and Reliance to Build AI Infrastructure in India, Boosting Local Capabilities and Global Leadership
5 months ago

Nvidia and Reliance to Build AI Infrastructure in India, Boosting Local Capabilities and Global Leadership

The Hindu  

Nvidia and Reliance Industries announce a major partnership to build an AI computing infrastructure in India. The partnership will include the construction of a new major data center using Nvidia's Blackwell AI chips, as well as the creation of an innovation center in the country. The collaboration aims to enhance local capabilities and position India as a significant player in …

We will have AI models designed and built in India: Rajeev Chandrasekhar
1 year ago

We will have AI models designed and built in India: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Hindustan Times  

The recently announced IndiaAI Mission will help create artificial intelligence models that are wholly designed and built in the country, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar asserted on Monday. “They have access to this kind of infrastructure, and as part of building digital infrastructure, IndiaAI will build this AI Compute infrastructure,” Chandrasekhar, who was speaking in Kerala's Thiruvananathapuram, explained. These are IndiaAI …

India’s AI leap: bridging the gap
1 year ago

India’s AI leap: bridging the gap

Live Mint  

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union government have been talking about ‘Making AI in India’ and ‘Making AI Work for India’ for some time now, there was a worry that the lack of powerful AI compute infrastructure could hold India’s AI ambitions back. The money allocated to help build the all-critical GPU infrastructure through a public-private partnership model …

India to invest $1.2 billion in AI infrastructure, startups; Ambani's Reliance to lead the race
1 year ago

India to invest $1.2 billion in AI infrastructure, startups; Ambani's Reliance to lead the race

Hindustan Times  

India will invest $1.2 billion in a wide range of artificial intelligence projects as the world's most populous country stakes a claim to the burgeoning sector. Junior minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the investment "will catalyze India's AI ecosystem and position it as a force shaping the future of AI for India and for the world". OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman …

India Launches Rs 10,300 Crore AI Mission
1 year ago

India Launches Rs 10,300 Crore AI Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared “India artificial intelligence or AI Mission” with an outlay of over Rs 10,300 crore for five years. After the Cabinet meeting Union minister Piyush Goyal told reporters that the Cabinet approved the India AI Mission with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore for five years to encourage AI development in the country. …

How India Can Ride the AI Wave Through Education and Workforce Development, Expert Weighs In
1 year, 3 months ago

How India Can Ride the AI Wave Through Education and Workforce Development, Expert Weighs In

News 18  

In his insights, Mr. Jaspreet Bindra, Managing Director & Founder of The Tech Whisperer, identifies India’s strategic advantages in the global AI environment and offers a thorough plan for utilising AI in the nation’s workforce development and educational system. Our software services companies are plugged into almost every Fortune 500 company, and they all want to do something with generative …

“Foundational models aren’t everything in AI,” Intel executive says
1 year, 3 months ago

“Foundational models aren’t everything in AI,” Intel executive says

The Hindu  

Intel has been making chipsets in the Asia Pacific region for over five decades. At Intel’s ConnectiON 2023 event, held in Bengaluru, Alexis Crowell, Intel’s VP and CTO for the APAC region, shared with The Hindu the chipmaker’s plans for the region Edited excerpts: There’s no update on Intel building a new fab in India yet but what is our …

India\'s AI Programme to Drive $1 Trillion Digital Economy by 2026: MoS Rajeev
1 year, 5 months ago

India\'s AI Programme to Drive $1 Trillion Digital Economy by 2026: MoS Rajeev

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The government is hopeful that India's artificial intelligence programme is likely to be a kinetic enabler for India to achieve the goal of a $1-trillion digital economy by 2026. “This is a deep, multi-year roadmap to make Indian AI work for being a kinetic enabler of the trillion dollar digital economy,” Chandrasekhar said. “Äpart from supporting the startup …

India lags behind China in artificial intelligence by a decade, may slip towards digital colonisation
3 years, 4 months ago

India lags behind China in artificial intelligence by a decade, may slip towards digital colonisation

Firstpost  

China has been using artificial intelligence as its strategic weapon to leapfrog ahead of the United States and achieve global domination Artificial intelligence amplifies human mind and ingenuity in amazing ways across virtually every domain. India is lagging behind China in AI by at least a decade, and it also routinely gives away its unique data assets to foreign countries …

Intel India sets up centre for artificial intelligence
4 years, 5 months ago

Intel India sets up centre for artificial intelligence

The Hindu  

Intel India said it had partnered IIIT Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India and the Telangana government to unveil a research centre to focus on leveraging artificial intelligence to solve India’s population-scale challenges in sectors such as healthcare and smart mobility. The applied AI research centre, INAI, here will act as a catalyst to accelerate India’s leadership in AI while …

Intel AI DevCon: India can play a crucial role in the development of AI
6 years, 7 months ago

Intel AI DevCon: India can play a crucial role in the development of AI

Firstpost  

Intel India hosted the first edition of its Artificial Intelligence developers conference aka AI DevCon in Bengaluru on 8 August, following a similar event that took place in the US. The idea of the AI DevCon is to bring key stakeholders in the fields of data science, machine and deep learning, application development and more to work towards making AI …

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