IndiaAI Mission

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Recently, the selection of three new startups for building India’s own Foundation Model, the IndiaAI Mission has taken a significant leap toward strengthening indigenous AI capabilities.

About IndiaAI Mission

• It was initially launched as a joint initiative between the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and Nasscom in 2023. 
• This initiative aims to bolster India’s AI ecosystem by making high-end computing resources accessible to startups and researchers.
• The mission’s key goals are
  • “Making AI in India” – Encouraging domestic AI development.
  • “Making AI Work for India” – Ensuring AI benefits various sectors in the country.
• Implementing agency: IndiaAI, an independent business division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), serves as the implementing agency for the IndiaAI Mission.
• It will help to democratize the benefits of AI, strengthen India’s position as a global AI leader, and promote ethical and responsible AI use across sectors.
• Pillars of the IndiaAI Mission
  • Common Compute Facility
  • AI Kosha (IndiaAI Datasets Platform)
  • AI Safety Institute of India (Upcoming)
  • IndiaAI Innovation Centre
  • AI Application Development Initiative
  • Future Skills Initiative
  • Startup Financing

IndiaAI Mission FAQs

Q1: Who is the father of AI?

Ans: John McCarthy

Q2: What is the full form of FLOPS?

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Ans: Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) is a measure of a computer’s performance.

Q3: What is the GPU?

Ans: Graphics processing unit, a specialized processor originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering.

Source: PIB