Centre opens portals to fuel India’s AI mission

The Union government launched AIKosha for AI datasets and a Compute Portal for researchers, boosting AI development in India with 14,517 GPUs.

The Union government on Thursday launched two new platforms under its IndiaAI Mission: the IndiaAI Datasets Platform (called AIKosha) and the IndiaAI Compute Portal.

The Centre launched two new platforms under its IndiaAI Mission: the IndiaAI Datasets Platform (called AIKosha) and the IndiaAI Compute Portal. (Gettyimages)

AIKosha provides access to multiple datasets and models to develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The compute portal allows researchers, academics, and startups to request access to powerful computing resources made available through more than 14,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from 10 companies at subsidised cost.

On the AIKosha portal, the ministry outlined eight use cases to