India’s IT Minister praised on Thursday DeepseekProgress and said that the country will host the large language models of the Chinese Ki laboratory on domestic servers in a rare opening for Chinese technology in India.
“You saw what Deepseek did – 5.5 million US dollars and a very very strong model”.
India has had since 2020 More than 300 apps and services related to ChinaIncluding Tikok and Wechat, citing national security concerns. The approval that Deepseek is hosted in India appears in the platform, which store and process all Indian user data in Germany, according to the strict requirements for the data localization of India.
“Data protection questions regarding Deepseek can be approached by hosting open source models on Indian servers,” said Vaishnaw at an industry conference.
The models from Deepseek are probably hosted in the new AI calculation in India. The system is made of 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUS), almost twice as high as the initial goal – almost 13,000 of which are NVIDIA H100 GPUs and around 1,500 NVIDIA H200 GPUs. Around 10,000 GPUs are ready for use and, according to the minister, the facility should begin “in the coming days”.
The facility will also offer computer services with steep discounts at companies in India. According to Vaishnaw, Standard AI Computing would be offered to market prices with a discount of 42%, and high -precision computing would be reduced by 47%.
The minister’s statements come a day after Deepseek of the same name was taken by Apple and Google’s app stores In Italy, according to the data protection regulator of this country, this said that this was the case Ask how the Chinese company used and store the personal data of the Italians.
The publication of deepseeks R1 “Argumenting” model, which is based on an allegedly modest budget, sent shock waves through the Tech industry this week, which caused Chip -Riese The market capitalization of Nvidia to drop by 600 billion US dollars. The model was quickly checked intensively and heated debates were triggered Copyright questionsPresent US export controlsand how More money has to be cast in AI efforts.
India also tries to organize foreign AI models, but also tries to promote the development of AI models and related technologies on its own lawn. “Big chip designers are ready to work with India to develop locals,” said Vaishnaw.
Vaishnaw estimated that India would give investments of $ 30 billion in hyperscalers and data centers over the next two to three years. One of the largest conglomerates in the country, reliance, is the plans to build the world’s largest data center in the city of Jamnagar. With a capacity of 3 gigawattsBloomberg reported last week.
“We believe that there are at least six main developers who can develop AI models on the outer border in six to eight months and four to six months after a more optimistic estimate. A common calculation is the most important component for creating a robust AI ecosystem, ”said Vaishnaw.
The computer facility will also support India’s wider AI initiatives. According to Vaishnaw, 18 AI-controlled applications that concentrate on the first financing were selected for the initial financing.
In order to monitor the development of these AI initiatives, India will set up a regulatory establishment using what Vaishnaw calls “Hub-and-Co model” so that several institutions can work together on security frames. “We will keep our models open and application -oriented,” he said.
