
Govt eyes domestic AI models
Hindustan TimesThe government announced plans to support homegrown large language models developed by Indian startups and companies, days after a Chinese company’s demonstration of cost-efficient AI capabilities led to a trillion-dollar market value drop for American tech giants. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that six Indian entities had already shown promise and could release their foundation models in the next ten months. To support AI development, the ministry announced the ten companies that submitted the lowest bids to provide common compute capacity across different graphics processing units categories and thus could be empanelled under the IndiaAI Mission. In December, Meity had invited proposals for five AI safety projects, including real-time deepfake detection, AI-generated content watermarking, ethical AI frameworks, and red teaming AI models, which will now be incorporated into AISI’s scope.
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