Context:
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is organizing the ‘Global India AI Summit’ in New Delhi.
Key Highlights of the Global India AI Summit 2024
- Objective: The event emphasizes the Indian government’s commitment to the responsible development of AI, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing among global AI stakeholders.
- GPAI Leadership: As the lead chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), India will host member countries and experts to further GPAI’s mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI.
About the IndiaAI Mission
- Ministry Oversight: The mission operates under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
- Implementation Model: It aims to ensure a structured rollout of the India AI mission through a public-private partnership model to nurture India’s AI innovation ecosystem.
- Execution: Managed by the ‘IndiaAI’ Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation (DIC).
- Focus Areas: The mission promotes responsible and inclusive growth of India’s AI ecosystem through seven key pillars, which are the primary focus of the Global India AI Summit:
- IndiaAI Compute Capacity: Developing an AI computing ecosystem with over 10,000 GPUs.
- IndiaAI Innovation Centre: Creating indigenous large multimodal models (LMMs) and domain-specific foundational models.
- IndiaAI Datasets Platform: Supporting Indian startups and R&D in AI model development.
- IndiaAI Application Development Initiative: Implementing impactful AI solutions for large-scale socio-economic transformation.
- IndiaAI FutureSkills: Expanding AI courses at various academic levels and establishing Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.
- IndiaAI Startup Financing: Providing support to deep-tech AI startups.
- Safe & Trusted AI: Promoting responsible AI projects, developing indigenous tools and frameworks, and establishing guidelines for ethical, transparent, and trustworthy AI technologies.