IndiaAI Mission: Know all about the 7 key pillars
As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to percolate across industries amid privacy concerns, the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the comprehensive national-level IndiaAI Mission with a budget outlay of Rs.10,371.92 crore.
By democratizing computing access, improving data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and bolstering ethical AI, the mission will drive responsible, inclusive growth of India’s AI ecosystem.
The mission will be implemented by ‘IndiaAI’ Independent Business Division (IBD) under Digital India Corporation (DIC), said the IT Ministry.
Let us see what the mission with seven key initiatives will offer.
Recognizing the need for adequate guardrails, the safe and trusted AI pillar will enable the implementation of ‘Responsible AI’ projects including the development of indigenous tools and frameworks, self-assessment checklists for innovators, and other guidelines and governance frameworks.
The ‘FutureSkills’ initiative is conceptualized to mitigate barriers to entry into AI programmes and will increase AI courses in undergraduate, masters-level, and Ph.D. programmes.
Data and AI labs will be set up in tier 2 and 3 cities across the country to impart foundational-level courses, said the ministry.
The IndiaAI compute pillar will build a high-end scalable AI computing ecosystem to cater to the increasing demands from India’s rapidly expanding AI startups and research ecosystem.
The ecosystem will comprise an AI computing infrastructure of 10,000 or more Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), built through public-private partnerships.
“An AI marketplace will be designed to offer AI as a service and pre-trained models to AI innovators. It will act as a one-stop solution for resources critical for AI innovation,” according to the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The next component is the IndiaAI Innovation Centre which will undertake the development and deployment of indigenous Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and domain-specific foundational models in critical sectors.
Another key aspect of the mission is the IndiaAI Datasets Platform which will streamline access to quality non-personal datasets for AI Innovation. A unified data platform will be developed to provide a one-stop solution for seamless access to non-personal datasets to Indian Startups and Researchers.
The IndiaAI Application Development Initiative will promote AI applications in critical sectors for the problem statements sourced from Central Ministries, State Departments, and other institutions.
“The initiative will focus on developing/scaling/promoting the adoption of impactful AI solutions with potential for catalyzing large-scale socio-economic transformation,” said the ministry.
Last but not least, the ‘IndiaAI Startup Financing’ pillar is conceptualized to support and accelerate deep-tech AI startups and provide them streamlined access to funding to enable futuristic AI Projects, said the government.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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