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Senior officials say the central government wants departments in sectors such as defence and aerospace to use more AI built in India under the IndiaAI Mission, and may steer some away from non-Indian frontier models for critical applications. The details below are drawn from the primary source, with analysis labelled separately.
At an event in New Delhi, the IndiaAI Mission unveiled three indigenous models built under its Innovation Centre pillar. Soket Labs' 26.3-billion-parameter EKA-1 supports English and all 22 scheduled languages, while ZenteiQ's compact Dhīr models are designed for secure, on-premise deployment and will be distributed through the AIKosh platform.
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing has issued a Request for Empanelment for AI service providers to supply up to 10,000 GPUs, TPUs and accelerators to ministries, researchers, startups and industry. Clusters must be hosted entirely in India with strict data-isolation rules, and capacity may be expanded beyond the initial figure on demand.
