India to create AI computing capacity for start-ups, researchers: Minister

The government will by early January next year create computing capacity that private start-ups and researchers can use for artificial intelligence (AI), said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for electronics and information technology, on Wednesday.

The capacity will be created by the public sector and separately in collaboration with private companies. “Our aim is to create an enabling framework of AI compute capacity. We will also be creating what we think will be globally the largest and most diverse set of datasets that will be available for our research and start-up ecosystem,” said Chandrasekhar at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) summit in Delhi.