Ashwini Vaishnaw cites Chandrayaan-3 to boast India's potential to develop low-cost AI models

Union IT curate Ashwini Vaishnaw cited India's ultra low-cost satellite ngo Chandrayaan-3 to showcase the country's innovation imaginable to bring down the outgo of AI development. In a sheet treatment with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the curate said that precise soon the authorities volition travel up with an unfastened contention for startups to invitation method solutions that galore authorities departments are looking for.

"Our young entrepreneurs, startups, researchers are truly focused connected getting that adjacent level of innovation which volition trim the cost. Our country, sent ngo to the satellite astatine a fraction of the outgo that galore different countries did. Why can't we bash a exemplary which volition beryllium a fraction of the outgo that galore different countries do? Innovation volition bring that outgo down," Vaishnaw said.

India's satellite ngo Chandrayaan-3 was worthy Rs 600 crore portion different countries person spent multi-billion dollars successful satellite exploration.

Altman, aft dismissing India's imaginable to make a low-cost foundational exemplary for AI similar ChatGPT successful 2023, has present changed his presumption with advancement successful the tract of AI and sees India arsenic a imaginable person successful the AI revolution.

Vaishnaw said that India is present moving connected the full ecosystem of AI improvement including gathering ain chipsets, providing compute installation astatine debased outgo arsenic good arsenic moving connected information sets that volition beryllium utilized for grooming the models successful Indian discourse successful presumption of language, taste and determination nuances etc wrong the country.

The authorities is apt to supply entree to GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) high-end machine to Indian enterprises and startups astatine a outgo of USD 1.6 per our which astatine presents costs implicit USD 6 per hr for the Indian firms.

Altman said the outgo of an quality portion - a module successful AI improvement - is gong to travel down by 10 times by extremity of this year.

He said, however, reasoning modules are not inexpensive and "it's inactive costly to bid them, but it's doable. I deliberation that's going to pb to an detonation of truly large creativity and India should beryllium a person there".

Adding to Altman's point, Vaishnaw said innovation to trim outgo tin travel from anyplace successful the world.

"Why shouldn't it travel from India? Our young entrepreneurs, our startups, our researchers, they are really, truly focused connected getting that adjacent level of innovation which volition trim the cost," helium said.