**Summary:**
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced significant progress in the IndiaAI Mission, aimed at strengthening indigenous AI capabilities. India's national compute capacity has surpassed 34,000 GPUs, supported by industry partners. Three additional startups—Soket AI, Gnani AI, and Gan AI—have been selected to develop India-specific foundational models, focusing on linguistic diversity, voice AI, and multilingual text-to-speech capabilities, respectively. These efforts align with the Prime Minister's vision of democratizing technology access. Furthermore, winners of the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon, organized with the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), were announced, showcasing AI-based solutions for enhanced cybercrime classification and pattern identification. The IndiaAI mission, implemented by IndiaAI, focuses on fostering technological self-reliance and the ethical use of AI across society.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Electronics IT: The Indian government ministry responsible for electronics and information technology.
IndiaAI Mission: An Indian initiative aimed at strengthening indigenous AI capabilities and democratizing technology.
Ashwini Vaishnaw: Union Minister for Electronics Information Technology, India.
IndiaAI Make AI in India, Make AI work for India event: An event held in New Delhi focused on advancing India's AI journey.
New Delhi: Location of the IndiaAI Make AI in India, Make AI work for India event.
AI Kosh: A repository of datasets, with 367 datasets uploaded.
IndiaAI Foundation Model: A pillar within the IndiaAI Mission focused on developing and deploying indigenous foundational models.
Sarvam AI: A company selected to build India's Sovereign LLM Ecosystem.
Sovereign LLM Ecosystem: Built by Sarvam AI, developing an open source 120 billion parameter AI model to enhance governance and public service access.
2047: Citizen Connect: A use case for the Sovereign LLM to enhance governance and public service.
AI4Pragati: A use case for the Sovereign LLM to enhance governance and public service.
Sarvam1: A 2 billion parameter model previously launched by Sarvam AI.
SarvamM 24B: A 24 billion parameter model with hybrid reasoning capabilities previously launched by Sarvam AI.
Soket AI: A company that will develop India's first opensource 120 billion parameter foundation model optimized for the country's linguistic diversity.
Gnani AI: A company that will build a 14 billion parameter Voice AI foundation model.
Gan AI: A company that will create a 70 billion parameter multilingual foundation model targeting "Superhuman TTStexttospeech" capabilities.
Cyfuture India Pvt. Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Ishan Infotech Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Sify Digital Services Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Vensysco Technologies Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
Yotta Data Services Pvt. Ltd.: One of the bidders for AI compute units (GPUs).
IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon: A hackathon jointly organised with Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre I4C, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre I4C: An organisation that jointly organised the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon.
Ministry of Home Affairs: An organisation that jointly organised the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon.
National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal NCRP: A portal where the models can interpret complex inputs such as handwritten FIRs, screenshots, and audio calls with improved speed and accuracy.
IndiaAI: An Independent Business Division under MeitY, the implementation agency for the IndiaAI Mission.
Dharmendra Tewari: Mentioned in the context of Table 1: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for OnDemand OneMonth Pricing
Navin Sreejith: Mentioned in the context of Table 1: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for OnDemand OneMonth Pricing
S4AI Technologies LLP: Affiliated Organization of Patel Darshankumar Shankarbhai, Nisarg Gandhi and Bhensdadiya Kevin.
CloudSEK Information Security Limited: Affiliated Organization of Shubham Luharuka and Lasya Ippagunta.
Voldebug Innovations Pvt. Ltd.: Affiliated Organization of Meet Bisht, Rohit Ganaka and Yukta Chauhan.
Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology: Affiliated Organization of Aditi Singh, Palak Garg and Riva Jain.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
India’s Common Compute Capacity Crosses 34,000
GPUs
3 More Startups to Develop and Deploy Indian
Foundation Models
Posted On: 30 MAY 2025 6:03PM by PIB Delhi
India’s national compute capacity has crossed 34000 GPUs. Along with this, the selection of three new
startups for building India's own Foundation Model, the IndiaAI Mission has taken a significant leap toward
strengthening indigenous AI capabilities.
Marking this milestone, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
today announced several key initiatives at the ‘IndiaAI- Make AI in India, Make AI work for India’ event held
in New Delhi aimed at advancing India’s AI journey.
Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw urged the newly selected teams under the IndiaAI Mission to aim for
a top-five global position in their respective sectors. Emphasizing Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision
of democratization of technology, Union Minister Shri Vaishnaw said, “Technology should not be left in the
hands of a few. It's very important that a larger section of the society should be able to access technology,
develop new solutions and get better opportunities. That's the philosophy with which IndiaAI Mission was
created. We are making significant progress in practically every pillar of the AI mission. Common compute is
a very important principle of democratizing technology.”Union Minister shared that 367 datasets have already been uploaded to AI Kosh. The Minister also underlined
IndiaAI Mission’s role in fostering reverse brain drain, and creating a comprehensive ecosystem
encompassing foundational models, compute capacity, safety standards, and talent development initiatives. He
emphasized that these efforts are aimed at building a complete and inclusive AI ecosystem in India.
Three More Indigenous Foundation Models
The IndiaAI Foundation Model pillar within the Mission aims to develop and deploy indigenous foundational
models trained on India-specific data. Since the Call for Proposals launch, 506 proposals have been received
th
till April 30, 2025. On 26 April 2025, Sarvam AI has been selected to build India's Sovereign LLM
Ecosystem, developing an open source 120 billion parameter AI model to enhance governance and public
service access through use cases like "2047: Citizen Connect" and "AI4Pragati". This follows the earlier
launch of the Sarvam-1 model (2 billion parameters) and Sarvam-M (24B parameters) model with hybrid
reasoning capabilities.
In addition to Sarvam AI, three more proposals have been selected following a rigorous multi-stage expert
evaluation:
a. Soket AI will develop India's first open-source 120 billion parameter foundation model optimized for
the country's linguistic diversity, targeting sectors such as defense, healthcare, and education.
b. Gnani AI will build a 14 billion parameter Voice AI foundation model delivering multilingual, real-time
speech processing with advanced reasoning capabilities.
c. Gan AI will create a 70 billion parameter multilingual foundation model targeting "Superhuman
TTS(text-to-speech)" capabilities to surpass current global leaders.
Expansion of compute capacity
Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced the additional 15,916 GPUs to the existing 18,417
empanelled GPUs creating a total of 34,333 GPUs with support of industry partners. This 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.
The seven bidders listed below have offered their commercials for various categories of AI compute units
(GPUs) quoted in Table 1 and Table 2:
1. Cyfuture India Pvt. Ltd.,
2. Ishan Infotech Ltd.,3. Locuz Enterprise Solutions Ltd.,
4. Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd.,
5. Sify Digital Services Ltd.,
6. Vensysco Technologies Ltd.,
7. Yotta Data Services Pvt. Ltd.,
IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon
Under the IndiaAI Applications Development Initiative, Union Minister, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced
the winners of the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon, jointly organised with Indian Cyber Crime
Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs as annexed in Annexure 1. The Hackathon resulted in
the development of AI-based solutions to enhance the classification of cybercrime complaints and support the
identification of emerging crime patterns, trends, and modus operandi on the National Cyber Crime Reporting
Portal (NCRP). These models can interpret complex inputs such as handwritten FIRs, screenshots, and audio
calls with improved speed and accuracy.
About India AI
IndiaAI, an Independent Business Division under MeitY, is the implementation agency for the IndiaAI
Mission. It strives to democratize the benefits of AI across all strata of society, bolster India's leadership in
AI, foster technological self-reliance, and ensure the ethical and responsible use of AI.
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Dharmendra Tewari/ Navin Sreejith
Table 1: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for On-Demand & One-Month Pricing
On-Demand Pricing (Hourly One-Month Pricing
S l . AI Compute Unit Charges in ₹) (Hourly Charges in ₹)
No. (GPU) Category L1 (lowest) L1 (lowest) L1 (lowest Bid
L1 (lowest) Bidder
Bid Price Bidder Price)
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
1 168.224 165.048
(1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
2 378.504 371.358
(2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
3 757.008 742.716
(4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
4 1416.560 1389.904
(8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
5 169.200 123.3
(1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
6 338.400 246.6
(2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
7 676.800 493.2
(4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
8 1351.800 990
(8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(1X) (32GB
9 79.60 Technologies 79.60 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.xlarge)
AWS Inferentia2 V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
10 206.57 206.57
(1X) (32GB Technologies T e c h n o l o g i e sM e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.8xlarge)
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(6X) (32GB
11 681.35 Technologies 681.35 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.24xlarge)
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(12X) (32GB
12 1362.71 Technologies 1362.71 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.48xlarge)
AWS Trainium
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(1X) (32GB
13 130.21 Technologies 130.21 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Trn1.2xlarge)
AWS Trainium
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(16X) (32GB
14 945.00 Technologies 945.00 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
trn1.32xlarge)
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
15 Intel Gaudi 2 (1X) 57.600 46.8
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
16 Intel Gaudi 2 (2X) 115.200 93.6
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
17 Intel Gaudi 2 (4X) 230.400 187.2
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
18 Intel Gaudi 2 (8X) 460.800 374.4
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
19 Intel Gaudi 3 (1X) 153.000 134.1
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
20 Intel Gaudi 3 (2X) 306.000 268.2
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
21 Intel Gaudi 3 (4X) 612.000 536.4
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
22 Intel Gaudi 3 (8X) 1224.000 1072.8
Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
NVIDIA A100
23 3175.66 Technologies 3175.66 T e c h n o l o g i e s
40GB (8X)
Limited Limited
NVIDIA A100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
24 135.900 89.1
80GB (1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA A100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
25 271.800 178.2
80GB (2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA A100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
26 543.600 356.4
80GB (4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA A100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
27 1087.200 712.8
80GB (8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
Yotta Data
NVIDIA B200 Yotta Data Services
28 323.00 S e r v i c e s 308
SXM (1X) Private Limited
Private LimitedYotta Data
NVIDIA B200 Yotta Data Services
29 646.00 S e r v i c e s 616
SXM (2X) Private Limited
Private Limited
Yotta Data
NVIDIA B200 Yotta Data Services
30 1292.00 S e r v i c e s 1232
SXM (4X) Private Limited
Private Limited
Yotta Data
NVIDIA B200 Yotta Data Services
31 2584.00 S e r v i c e s 2464
SXM (8X) Private Limited
Private Limited
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H100 N e t m a g i c I T
32 168.74 Services Pvt. 135
NVL (1X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H100 N e t m a g i c I T
33 337.48 Services Pvt. 294.44
NVL (2X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H100 N e t m a g i c I T
34 674.96 Services Pvt. 588.88
NVL (4X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H100 N e t m a g i c I T
35 1349.92 Services Pvt. 1177.76
NVL (8X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
NVIDIA H100
36 2008.00 Technologies 1864 T e c h n o l o g i e s
PCIe (8X)
Limited Limited
NVIDIA H100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
37 153.000 134.1
SXM (1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA H100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
38 306.000 268.2
SXM (2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA H100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
39 612.000 536.4
SXM (4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA H100 CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
40 1224.000 1072.8
SXM (8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
L o c u z
NVIDIA H200 Enterprise Locuz Enterprise
41 3236.80 2737
PCIe (8X) S o l u t i o n s Solutions Limited
Limited
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H200 N e t m a g i c I T
42 140.00 Services Pvt. 135
SXM (1X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H200 N e t m a g i c I T
43 679.74 Services Pvt. 471.28
SXM (2X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H200 N e t m a g i c I T
44 1360.18 Services Pvt. 942.56
SXM (4X) Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
NVIDIA H200 N e t m a g i c I T
45 1125.00 Services Pvt. 1100
SXM (8X) Services Pvt. Ltd
LtdSify Digital
N e t m a g i c I T
46 NVIDIA L4 (1X) 45.07 S e r v i c e s 29
Services Pvt. Ltd
Limited
Netmagic IT
N e t m a g i c I T
47 NVIDIA L4 (2X) 98.84 Services Pvt. 58
Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Netmagic IT
N e t m a g i c I T
48 NVIDIA L4 (4X) 196.68 Services Pvt. 116
Services Pvt. Ltd
Ltd
Sify Digital
S i f y D i g i t a l
49 NVIDIA L4 (8X) 510.37 S e r v i c e s 495.06
Services Limited
Limited
NVIDIA L40S CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
50 67.500 49.50
(1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA L40S CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
51 135.000 99
(2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA L40S CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
52 306.000 198
(4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
NVIDIA L40S CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
53 540.000 396
(8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
Table 2: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for Six-Months & Twelve-Months Pricing
Six-Months Pricing (Hourly Twelve-Months Pricing
S l . AI Compute Unit Charges in ₹) (Hourly Charges in ₹)
No. (GPU Category) L1 (lowest) L1 (lowest) L1 (lowest Bid
L1 (lowest) Bidder
Bid Price Bidder Price)
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
1 161.88 148.00
(1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
2 364.23 333.00
(2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
3 728.46 666.00
(4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI300X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
4 1363.20 1336.00
(8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
5 102.60 85.50
(1X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
6 205.20 171.00
(2X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
7 410.40 342.00
(4X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AMD MI325X CyFuture India CyFuture India Pvt.
8 820.80 684.00
(8X) Pvt. Ltd. Ltd.
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(1X) (32GB
9 79.60 Technologies 50.15 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.xlarge)AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(1X) (32GB
10 206.57 Technologies 130.17 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.8xlarge)
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(6X) (32GB
11 681.35 Technologies 429.27 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.24xlarge)
AWS Inferentia2
V e n s y s c o V e n s y s c o
(12X) (32GB
12 1362.71 Technologies 858.53 T e c h n o l o g i e s
M e m o r y ;
Limited Limited
Inf2.48xlarge)
Annexure I
Winners of IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon
Team Lead Names of the Team members Affiliated Organization
Patel Darshankumar Shankarbhai
Nisarg Gandhi and Bhensdadiya Kevin S4AI Technologies LLP
Vasantbhai
Shubham Luharuka and CloudSEK Information Security
Lasya Ippagunta
Puneet Hegde Limited
Meet Bisht Rohit Ganaka and Yukta Chauhan Voldebug Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
Aditi Singh (All Maharaja Agrasen Institute of
Palak Garg and Riva Jain
women team) Technology
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