Cabinet approves 'India AI Mission' with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 cr for five years

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the 'India Artificial Intelligence Mission' with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore for five years, to give a further push for artificial intelligence in India.

The announcement was made by Union Minister Piyush Goyal at a Cabinet briefing, where he reiterated the need to have a robust environment for promoting the tech in the country.

" The IndiaAI mission will establish a comprehensive ecosystem that catalyzes AI innovation through strategic programs and partnerships across the public and private sectors. By democratizing computing access, improving data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and bolstering ethical AI, it will drive responsible and inclusive growth of India's AI ecosystem," the government said in a release.

All set to be implemented by the ‘IndiaAI’ Independent Business Division (IBD) under Digital India Corporation's (DIC) IndiaAI independent business division (IBD), and will consist of eight components, including IndiaAI Compute capability, IndiaAI innovation center, a dataset platform among others.

The government also plans to provide highly skilled job opportunities through this mission.

As part of building a massive computing facility, the government aims to add an AI computing infrastructure of 10,000 or more graphics processing units (GPUs), built through a public-private partnership.

"In addition, the AI marketplace will be designed to offer AI-as-a-service and pre-trained models to AI innovators. It will serve as a one-stop solution for resources critical to AI innovation," the government said.

Additionally, the Innovation Centers will undertake the development and deployment of indigenous Large Multimodal Models (LMM) and domain-specific fundamental models in critical sectors.

Regarding AI education, the government plans to implement the IndiaAI FutureSkills program, which is designed to reduce entry barriers to AI programs and will increase AI courses at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels. Programs. Under this mission, the government will also set up data and AI labs in tier 2 and tier 3 cities across India.

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