IndiaAI GPU Tender: 9 firms clear technical round, flag cost concerns

Bengaluru: Nine companies have cleared the technical stage in the fourth round of IndiaAI Mission's graphics processing unit (GPU) tender, according to government data, but they are concerned that rising costs and short contract cycles could make big investments in AI infrastructure difficult to sustain.

According to Government e-Marketplace (GeM) tender status data, the qualified bidders include Paradigmit Technology Services, Tata Communications, RackBank Datacenters, Netmagic IT Services, E2E Networks, Yotta Data Services, Cyfuture India, Sify Digital Services and UrsaCompute. Among these, Yotta Data Services is offering 17,000 Nvidia B300 GPUs. The company said this capacity would support both sovereign AI model training and inference requirements under the IndiaAI Mission, while also meeting the requirements of global clients.