10 Firms Set To Provide 14K GPUs

The IndiaAI Mission will provide common compute capacity through about 14,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) after ten shortlisted companies met the lowest bids for different GPU types, a senior government official said, asking not to be named.

- Aditi Agrawal

NEW DELHI:

Of this, over 10,000 GPUs are already available with Yotta Data Services, E2E Networks, Tata Communications, and AWS's managed service providers, while the remaining 4,000 GPUs will be purchased by companies including Jio Platforms and CtrlS Datacenters.

The ten companies had proposed providing 18,693 GPUs for the mission's AI Compute pillar.

After the IT ministry announced the lowest bids on January 30 for different types of GPUs, bidders had until February 14 to meet them. They ultimately met the L1 bids for about 14,000 GPUs.

Of the ₹10,371.92 crore ($1.25 billion) approved for the IndiaAI Mission in March, 44% (₹4,563.36 crore) is earmarked for compute capacity through more than 10,000 GPUs over five years. Companies will be empanelled for 36 months, extendable by 12 months.

Seventy percent of the promised GPUs are high-end, such as Nvidia's H100.

The remaining thirty percent are low-end GPUs with lower capacity or older generations.