IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has reportedly said that the evaluation of AI Large Language Model (LLM) applications is in the final leg and soon the government will shortlist entities that will secure funding under the INR 10,037 Cr IndiaAI Mission.

As per news agency PTI, Vaishnaw said, “The evaluation of the AI LLM applications is in its final stage. Within the next few weeks, we should be able to award the first few LLM model teams, who will then start getting the funding under the AI mission.”

The minister’s comment comes days after electronics and information technology ministry (MeitY) additional secretary Abhishek Singh reportedly said that the soon.

Prior to that, in January, Vaishnaw said that .

The government has also selected 10 companies that will supply 18,693 graphics processing units or GPUs — high end chips needed to develop machine learning tools that can go into developing a foundational model.

An ET report said that the in the second round of bidding, which closed on March 15.

, aims to create an AI ecosystem, offering supercomputing capabilities comprising over 10,000 GPUs to various stakeholders.

It covers initiatives such as IndiaAI Compute Capacity, IndiaAI Innovation Centre (IAIC), IndiaAI Datasets Platform, IndiaAI Application Development Initiative, IndiaAI FutureSkills, IndiaAI Startup Financing, and Safe & Trusted AI.

This comes at the heart of the government aggressively pushing for AI adoption in the country and ramping up AI-centric offerings

Last month, the government , IndiaAI Compute Portal, an accelerator programme to incubate homegrown AI startups, and other offerings to foster innovation.

Additionally, the Centre is also working on acquiring 18,000 graphic processing units (GPUs) to offer AI computing to startups, researchers, students and academicians.

India is home to more than 200 GenAI startups that raised more than

Overall, the Indian AI ecosystem is projected to become a $17 Bn market opportunity by 2030.

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