India to Deploy 10,000 GPUs Under National AI Mission: Tender Allocations Finalized
Government finalizes public-private partnership tenders with CtrlS, Yotta, and Tata Communications to provide sovereign compute access for domestic AI companies.
Sovereign Supercomputing Tenders Finalized
The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has officially completed vendor empanelment for hosting 10,000 enterprise-grade Nvidia H100 and B200 GPUs across Indian datacenter facilities.
Subsidized Cloud Pricing for Startups
Under the approved subsidy formula, vetted Indian startups and research institutions will be eligible for compute access at an estimated 40% discount compared to global commercial public cloud tariffs.
Supporting Indigenous Foundational Models
The compute cluster will directly accelerate development of sovereign Indic models, ensuring indigenous research labs can train 70B+ parameter models on domestic soil.
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