India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday said that the country’s first sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) model is set to be released by the end of the year, marking a major milestone in the country’s efforts to build indigenous AI capabilities.

Though a late entrant in the AI race, with 38,000 GPUs available at just Rs 65 per hour and 12 companies developing foundation models, India aims to launch an Indian Large Language Model (LLM) by year-end, reducing dependence on foreign systems.

Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary MeitY, CEO of IndiaAI and DG-NIC, the IndiaAI Mission approved last year told IANS that the government is addressing key gaps by enabling affordable compute, creating a national data platform, supporting foundation models, advancing AI s

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