After Sarvam, three more startups join India AI mission

Soket AI, Gnani.ai, Gan.ai to now build foundation AI models

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

AFTER SARVAM, India on Friday selected three more startups—Soket AI, Gan AI, Gnani AI—for building indigenous artificial intelligence foundation models.

In line with its global AI ambitions backed by a comprehensive plan that entails enhanced AI infrastructure and local language model development, India has also announced availability of 16,000 more GPUs that would take the compute facility available to startups and researchers here to 34,000, with the support of industry partners.

The expanded compute capacity on cloud will provide a common computational AI platform for training and inference, crucial to develop indigenous foundational models and AI solutions tailored to the Indian context.