New Delhi: The Union government on Friday approved the empanelment of 15,640 new graphic processing unit (GPU) processors from data centre and cloud service providers, and also appointed three new startups that will get access to these chips for free, to train their artificial intelligence models. Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s Info Edge Ventures-backed AI startup, Gnani.ai, was…
These reactions are understandable but short-sighted. AI is not just a product or tool. It is an enabling layer, much like electricity, the internet or aviation, that can permeate and power every aspect of life. Electricity offers a useful parallel. In the 19th century, Edison and Tesla fought bitterly over the future of current, with Edison…
Company registration data shows that 100-200 new AI-centric businesses take birth every month as tech entrepreneurs venture into health, agriculture, cloud, and robotics, powering the country’s robust service sector. In April alone, 226 AI-focused businesses were incorporated, a jump from 86 a year earlier, data from the ministry of corporate affairs showed. That again was…
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, launched the AI Compute Portal in New Delhi on Thursday. The platform is designed to provide researchers, startups, and government agencies with access to high-powered computing resources, including advanced Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. At the launch, Vaishnaw announced that the government…
India must democratize AI to establish itself as a global leader in artificial intelligence, AI experts deliberated at the Mint AI Summit 2025. They highlighted the need for collaboration across multiple sectors, including public-private partnerships, universities, and scholars. Currently, India lags in AI PhD holders and faces significant infrastructure challenges, particularly in energy supply and…
India is accelerating its efforts to build a homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) foundational model, akin to China’s DeepSeek, under the ambitious ₹10,370-crore IndiaAI Mission. The Centre is gearing up to push forward its AI roadmap. Here are five key things to know: 1. IndiaAI Mission Gains Momentum with 67 Bids According to a report from…
Keeping up the momentum of the 2023 Bletchley Park and 2024 Seoul AI Safety talks, global leaders have gathered at this year’s AI Action Summit in Paris to forge a consensus on the regulation and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) for the common good. The agenda of this huddle focuses on public-service AI, the future…
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 Modi administration has greenlit 18 proposals, offering support in the form of computing power, data, and funding to drive AI solutions in areas like agriculture and climate change….
1. Smarter AI models will intensify AGI fears “Lata has three apples and buys five more. How many does she have now?” Even a 5-year-old can answer eight. Similarly, GenAI models solve this using ‘chain of thought’ reasoning: “Lata starts with three apples. She buys five more, so 3 + 5 = 8.” AI can…
