New Delhi, March 19 (IANS). Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said on Wednesday that there is going to be a partnership between ‘India AI Mission’ and ‘Gates Foundation’ in different areas. ‘Gates Foundation’ is an American private foundation established by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.
In a post on social media platform X, the Union Minister said that a memorandum will be signed soon to create an AI-based solutions to strengthen many important areas in the country.
He wrote in the post, “AI solution to reduce better crops, strong healthcare, better education and climate sensitivity – India AI Mission and Bill Gates Foundation will soon be a memorandum of understanding.”
Bill Gates is currently on a tour of India.
In order to make access to quality datasets easier for the development of AI technology, the government recently took a big step towards India AI Mission by launching the country’s dataset platform Ai -Toot and AI Compute Portal.
The government has also set a target to develop GPU domestically within the next three to five years. It is part of a large India AI mission of Rs 10,000 crore.
The AI compute portal will provide companies access to the GPU with subsidized for research and development. So far, around 14,000 GPUs have been live, and 4,000 are in the pipeline.
Earlier, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had announced the purchase of 18,693 GPUs from selected vendors.
According to Ashwini Vaishnav, the Ministry related to agriculture and weather forecasting, and the language have already provided data to the platform.
Earlier this month, the minister said, “India’s own AI basic model is moving well; We have 67 applications, out of which 22 are to develop large language models (LLM).”
Meanwhile, Gates, co-Speaker of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited NITI Aayog’s ‘Developed India Strategy Room’ (VBSR) on Monday.
-IANS
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