{"id":1290985,"date":"2025-02-18T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1290985"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:33:39","slug":"indiaai-mission-to-be-powered-by-14000-gpus-from-indian-tech-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/indiaai-mission-to-be-powered-by-14000-gpus-from-indian-tech-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiaAI Mission To Be Powered By 14,000 GPUs From Indian Tech Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;IndiaAI Mission appears to be planning to provide common compute capacity through about 14,000 graphics processing units (GPUs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IndiaAI Portal Launch&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0For doing so, they have shortlisted ten companies which have met the lowest bids for different GPU types as informed by a senior government official on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-1024x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1290995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-1536x900.png 1536w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-01-09-at-10.26.50\u202fAM-2048x1200.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of these,10,000 GPUs are already available with the companies such as Yotta Data Services, E2E Networks, Tata Communications, and AWS\u2019s managed service providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They plan to purchase the remaining 4,000 GPUs by companies including Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, ten companies had proposed that they would provide 18,693 GPUs for the mission\u2019s AI Compute pillar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bidders had until February 14 to meet the lowest bids which were earlier announced by the IT ministry on January 30 for different types of GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It appears that they have finally met the L1 bids for about 14,000 GPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, \u20b910,371.92 crore ($1.25 billion) were approved for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/indias-ai-mission-portal-s-launch-soon-10-firms-to-provide-14-000-gpus-101739735092804.html\">IndiaAI Mission<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of these, 44% ( \u20b94,563.36 crore) is earmarked for compute capacity through more than 10,000 GPUs over five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are planning to empanel the companies for 36 months which will further be extendable by 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems that the seventy percent of the promised GPUs are high-end, such as Nvidia\u2019s H100.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While, the remaining thirty percent are low-end GPUs as they come with lower capacity or older generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of these, Yotta Data Services accounts for the bulk of the compute capacity having 9,216 GPUs; it further includes 8,192 Nvidia H100s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this, AWS has done its bidding through four managed service providers including CMS Computers, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Orient Technologies, and Vensysco Technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company will provide 1,200 low-end GPUs i.e. 800 AWS Inferentia 2 and 400 Trainium 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Did This Happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, IndiaAI Compute Pillar sent a memo to all union ministries, departments, and chief secretaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The memo was regarding the discounted compute capacity, network, and storage services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, with this empanelment, they aim to serve Indian users including academia, researchers, MSMEs, startups, students, industry, and government departments and agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IndiaAI Mission has plans to cover up to 40% of the total computer costs for \u201celigible users\u201d as per the information provided by the February 7 memo signed by Abhishek Das, general manager of IndiaAI Compute Pillar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the lowest bids averaged 42% below market price. 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