India’s AI mission portal’s launch quickly: 10 companies to supply 14,000 GPUs

Of this, over 10,000 GPUs are already accessible with Yotta Knowledge Companies, E2E Networks, Tata Communications, and AWS’s managed service suppliers, whereas the remaining 4,000 GPUs will likely be bought by corporations together with Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters.

The ten corporations had proposed offering 18,693 GPUs for the mission’s AI Compute pillar. After the IT ministry introduced the bottom bids on January 30 for several types of GPUs, bidders had till February 14 to fulfill them. They in the end met the L1 bids for about 14,000 GPUs.

Of the ₹10,371.92 crore ($1.25 billion) permitted for the IndiaAI Mission in March, 44% ( ₹4,563.36 crore) is earmarked for compute capability by greater than 10,000 GPUs over 5 years. Firms will likely be empanelled for 36 months, extendable by 12 months.

Seventy % of the promised GPUs are high-end, resembling Nvidia’s H100. The remaining thirty % are low-end GPUs with decrease capability or older generations.

Yotta Knowledge Companies accounts for the majority of the compute capability with 9,216 GPUs, together with 8,192 Nvidia H100s.

AWS, bidding by 4 managed service suppliers (CMS Computer systems, Locuz Enterprise Options, Orient Applied sciences, and Vensysco Applied sciences), will present 1,200 low-end GPUs — 800 AWS Inferentia 2 and 400 Trainium 1. Although these corporations additionally bid for two,400 Nvidia H100 GPUs, they declined to fulfill the bottom bid.

Jio Platforms agreed to supply 208 H200 Nvidia GPUs and 104 AMD MI300X GPUs, the place it was already the bottom bidder. The corporate plans to submit recent, decrease bids for different GPUs throughout steady empanelment on April 30, the official stated.

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The IndiaAI Compute Portal will even be launched within the coming days by IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Numerous stakeholders, together with union ministries and state governments, can request compute capability by this portal.

Memo Particulars Subsidies and Companies

The IndiaAI Compute Pillar despatched a memo to all union ministries, departments, and chief secretaries concerning the discounted compute capability, community, and storage providers. The empanelment goals to serve Indian customers together with academia, researchers, MSMEs, startups, college students, trade, and authorities departments and companies.

IndiaAI Mission will cowl as much as 40% of compute prices for “eligible customers”, in response to the February 7 memo signed by Abhishek Das, normal supervisor of IndiaAI Compute Pillar.

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The bottom bids averaged 42% under market value, costing corporations ₹115.85 and ₹150 per GPU hour for low-end and high-end compute capability, respectively. The extra authorities subsidy will scale back prices to below ₹100 per GPU hour for sure customers.

A committee will likely be fashioned to guage subsidy proposals, with quantity of subsidy various by person class, the official stated. Tasks of “nationwide significance” that profit residents might obtain the utmost 40% subsidy.

The memo additionally detailed lowest bids for storage and community providers: NxtGen Datacenter provided high-speed storage at ₹1.2/GB/month, Yotta Knowledge Companies supplied object storage at ₹0.84/GB/month, whereas AWS MSPs and Jio Platforms provided “ingress” (importing) community providers for ₹0/GB/month, whereas E2E Networks provided “egress” (downloading) community providers for ₹0/GB/month.