In an unusual move for Chinese technology in India, India’s IT minister hailed DeepSeek’s advancements on Thursday and announced that the nation will host the Chinese AI lab’s massive language models on local servers.
In response to criticism of New Delhi’s own AI spending, which has been significantly lower than that of many other nations, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated on Thursday, “You have seen what DeepSeek has done $5.5 million and a very very powerful model.”
Citing national security concerns, India has prohibited around 300 Chinese-affiliated applications and services since 2020, including WeChat and TikTok. The platform’s ability to store and process all Indian users’ data locally seems to be a requirement for permission to host DeepSeek in India. At an industry conference, Vaishnaw stated that storing open-source models on Indian servers would solve DeepSeek’s data privacy concerns.
The new AI compute facility in India is probably where DeepSeek’s models would be housed. substantially 13,000 of the facility’s 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUs) are Nvidia H100 GPUs, while over 1,500 are Nvidia H200 GPUs, substantially double its original goal. According to the minister, the facility is expected to start operations “in the coming days,” with about 10,000 GPUs ready for deployment.
Additionally, the facility would provide computing services to Indian businesses at great prices. According to Vaishnaw, high-precision computing would be discounted by 47% and regular AI computing by 42% from market rates.
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