Overview

• IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw urged a shift toward domestic product design to propel India into a “product nation” across manufacturing and services.
• Bidding under the IndiaAI Mission has attracted offers for more than 18,000 GPUs in its first round and nearly 14,000 in the second, exceeding the original 10,000-unit target.
• New AI models tailored to Indian languages and cultural contexts are under development, with Sarvam leading the first rollout and shared datasets in progress.
• The IndiaAI Compute Portal will grant startups, researchers and students access to high-end GPUs and AI cloud services to foster broadly accessible innovation.
• The Railways Ministry’s innovation portal has registered 3,000 entities and awarded 23 projects worth ₹44 crore as it prepares to formalize a regulatory sandbox within two months.