Centre’s sovereign AI push: Compute mission may get over Rs 10,000 crore outlay

The Centre’s ambitious artificial intelligence (AI) Mission may soon head for Cabinet approval and could have an outlay of more than Rs 10,000 crore, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told reporters Tuesday.
As part of the programme, the government wants to develop its own ‘sovereign AI’, build computational capacity in the country, and offer compute-as-a-service to India’s startups.
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