Vaishnaw Discusses Sovereign GPU Manufacturing With Nvidia

• India plans to build its own GPU within 3–4 years with support from Nvidia
• GPU capacity expanded to 38,000 units with low-cost access for developers
• Government backing startups to build homegrown AI models and hardware

In a substantial step toward becoming technologically independent, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had a meeting with top Nvidia officials to talk about the design and manufacturing of Indian high-end data processing devices.

The Minister, while talking to Nvidia's South Asia Managing Director, Vishal Dhupar, expressed India's desire to have its own GPU in the next three to four years.

This partnership is very clever as it takes into account Nvidia's top position in the market, since the firm presently has more than 80% of the GPU market and provides the necessary hardware for running modern AI applications.

In a post on X, Vaishnaw stated, “Met NVIDIA team and discussed development of sovereign GPUs and manufacturing of edge devices like DGX Spark in Bharat. This device delivers up to 1 petaFLOP performance with secure inferencing for models up to 200 billion parameters. This compact GPU doesn't require the Internet. Suitable for railways, shipping, healthcare, education and remote applications”.

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The government is planning to dramatically scale up the infrastructure in support of the India AI Mission. Initially, the target was set for 10,000 GPUs, however, the country has already installed 38,000 units to serve the quickly growing global demand for AI development.

In order to create a vibrant startup scene, the government is offering very high subsidies for the use of this computing power, and thus, the access to GPUs is available to the developers at a very low price of ₹65 per hour. This project is targeted to the facilitators of the local market for language models complexity and thus it is an effort to break the innovators' barrier of entry very low.

Besides, the authorities have chosen a dozen top startups and research consortia to lead the establishment of the homegrown AI engines, along with Sarvam AI, BharatGen, and Fractal Analytics, among others.

By collaborating with worldwide leaders like Nvidia, while at the same time developing the local expertise, India is able to change its role from being a tech consumer to being a world power in the production of advanced hardware and in the area of AI that is controlled by the state.