India is focused on democratizing AI technology by supporting deep tech entrepreneurs, providing AI compute infrastructure, and creating a public platform. New Delhi intends to invest in GPUs for AI innovation and is in talks with GPAI countries regarding AI rules.
The goal of India’s strategy for harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) is to democratize technology, as stated on Wednesday by Ashwini Vaishnaw, the minister of electronics and IT.
“Everyone should have access to technology.” It’s no secret that technology, particularly contemporary technology, is getting increasingly costly. At the Global IndiaAI Summit, Vaishnaw stated, “And in many geographies, the tendency is that it gets limited in the hands of a few, whether it be big tech or in some cases government control of everything.”
The government’s strategy will entail funding the development of a platform that is available to the general public and provides access to standardized protocols, high-quality datasets, and processing capacity.
Here, too, is a shared set of legal and technical frameworks. This shared platform may be used by academics, startups, business owners, and individuals developing different applications in industries like healthcare, education, medicine, and agriculture to expedite their work, he continued.
According to Stanford University’s annual AI Index report, India ranked sixth in terms of investments made in companies providing AI-based goods and services in the previous year.
Vaishnaw claims that through a public-private partnership, the government will invest in an AI computing infrastructure consisting of at least 10,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
“We’re going to establish an AI Innovation Center with the primary goal of obtaining high-quality datasets to support the work of researchers and companies. Applications pertinent to our current social and economic issues can be developed and targeted under our application development effort. We’ll also give skill development a lot of attention,” he stated.
Additionally, he stated that the center would prioritize accelerating funding for AI and deep tech, realizing that the early stages of a project are often vulnerable because venture finance steps in until profits are apparent. One important aspect of the government’s objective will be to assist deep tech businesses in this early stage.
Vaishnaw had stated in December of last year that New Delhi is in talks with the 29 nations that make up the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) to get an agreement on a declaration that would address the responsible application of AI, the boundaries around the technology, and its handling.
