Hon’ble Minister of Electronics & IT, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in presence of Hon’ble MoS of E&IT Shri Jitin Prasada, Shri Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, MeitY and CEO, IndiaAI, Smt. Kavita Bhatia, COO, IndiaAI, Shri Nand Kumarum, P&CEO, NeGD & CEO, DIC and senior officials from MeitY and IndiaAI announced availability of 18,000+ GPUs through empanelment of AI cloud service providers, a call for proposals for the development of indigenous foundational models, creation of an AI Safety institute and AI applications funded under the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge.

Hon’ble Minster Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw said that “Our Prime Minister’s economic thinking is very inclusive. He believes in making modern technology accessible to everyone to ensure the people at the bottom of the pyramid are economically empowered.”

The Hon’ble Minister has announced the setting up of IndiaAI Safety Institute under the Safe and Trusted Pillar of the IndiaAI Mission to address AI risks & Safety Challenges. 

The IndiaAI Safety Institute will work with all relevant stakeholders, including academia, startups, industry and government ministries/departments, towards ensuring safety, security and trust in AI. The Institute will advance indigenous research and development, based on Indian datasets and contextualized to India’s social, economic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. 

The Institute, incubated by IndiaAI Mission will be set up on a hub and spoke model with various research and academic institutions, private sector partners joining the hub and taking up projects under the Safe and Trusted Pillar of IndiaAI Mission. 

Under the Safe and Trusted pillar, the IndiaAI Mission has selected eight Responsible AI Projects against the first Expression of Interest (EoI). These projects are listed in Annexure 3.  

Further IndiaAI has launched the 2nd round of Expression of Interest (EoI) open to Indian Academic Institutes/Organizations, Autonomous bodies, R&D Institutes/Organizations, Startups and Companies. 

Themes

Themes covered under the 2nd EoI include:  

• Watermarking & Labelling 
• Ethical AI Frameworks 
• AI Risk Assessment & Management  
• Stress Testing Tools  
• Deepfake Detection Tools