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…
On Saturday, the Chhattisgarh High Court granted interim relief to platforms such as Probo and SportsBaazi, allowing them to operate nationwide while ordering geo-blocking only within the state. The court flagged procedural lapses, noting that the state’s blanket ban lacked prior notice or a hearing. This comes even as another court—Punjab and Haryana High Court—hears…
While Trai argues that data such as details for subscribers using specific recharge packs sought recently is essential for transparency and effective regulation, telcos have raised concerns over competitive sensitivity and the administrative burden they face for meeting those data sharing requests. This has led to a growing standoff between the two, one of the…
The scheme, which will run over several years, will support companies across 30 semiconductor and 30 electronics categories, the people cited above said on the condition of anonymity. The incentives will be given based on value of capital investments (capex) as well as turnover of companies. The idea is to create an ecosystem that encourages…
The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is in touch with billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X over recent incidents of its AI chatbot Grok using Hindi slang and abusive responses. According to a report by news agency PTI, the IT ministry is examining the issue. It will investigate the matter and…
New Delhi: India unveiled its library of non-personal data sets, called AI Kosh, to help companies build large language models (LLMs), the latest step by the Centre to help scale up the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in the country. AI Kosh will also be used to give startups approvals to get access to the…
“OpenAI is looking for ways to expand its India presence, which is a natural process since India is one of the biggest developer ecosystems for the company. With multiple competitors within the US itself, and now coupled with the emergence of China as a force to reckon with, the company is in process of doubling…
Work on developing the framework for the chip to power artificial intelligence systems is under way, and an official announcement is expected later this year, said three senior officials aware of the development. The government has set a tentative timeline of 2027 to make the chips at a domestic chip fabrication plant, they said on…
On Saturday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a fiscal outlay of ₹2,000 crore ($230 million) for the Mission. The move succeeded the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) announcing last Thursday that a repository of 18,693 graphic processing units (GPUs), provided by private sector companies, was ready to be used as an on-cloud supercomputing…
Called ‘Vishvasya’, or ‘trust’ in Sanskrit, the framework seeks to establish what the Centre called “trust and transparency” in public records and databases. A note by the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) on the Framework said that the Centre’s blockchain will use three data centres across India to store data, and offer companies…
