MeitY shortlists 7 firms in second round of AI Mission GPU tenderUnder the IndiaAI Mission, seven firms—including AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud partners—were shortlisted for the second round of GPU tender...
07 May, 2025, 06.01 AM IST
Computing India's AI future: Google, Infosys, TCS, others look to chip inThe government is subsidising 40% of the cost of GPUs, bringing the final price to under one dollar per hour of GPU usage for companies—the...
09 Apr, 2025, 11.27 AM IST
Bidders flag end-of-life GPUs offered under IndiaAI MissionBidders expressed concerns about Nvidia A100 GPUs, declared end-of-life (EOL), being used in the IndiaAI Mission. They questioned the viabi...
18 Feb, 2025, 07.58 AM IST
AI Mission GPU tender bidders get two more days to match L1 ratesThe IndiaAI Mission extended the GPU tender deadline to February 14. Some bidders matched L1 rates, while others raised concerns over prici...
13 Feb, 2025, 11.05 AM IST
‘India AI mission GPU hourly pricing aggressively low’India's AI mission GPU tender saw aggressive bidding, with average prices at Rs 115.85 per GPU hour, far below the global average of $2.5-3...
01 Feb, 2025, 11.30 AM IST
Biden admin’s cap on GPU exports may hit India's AI ambitionsThe outgoing US administration’s proposed rule to curb the import of graphics processing units (GPUs) by certain countries may hit India's ...
16 Jan, 2025, 12.31 PM IST
Oracle’s four India partners may fail to make AI mission cutThis may hinder the American cloud company's ability to empanel with the much-coveted Mission to offer AI compute capacity in India through...
16 Jan, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
PhonePe’s q-comm ambitions; Groww’s upcoming IPOPhonePe is set to be the first fintech to take on quick commerce. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
14 Jan, 2025, 07.36 AM IST
AI Mission GPU tender bidders showcase their solutions to MeitYThe government initiative aims to make available 10,000 GPUs to support startups, researchers, students and academicians. Around 44%, or Rs...
14 Jan, 2025, 06.01 AM IST
Nvidia dominates GPU offerings in government’s Rs 10,000-crore AI missionThe government initiative aims to make available 10,000 GPUs to support IndiaAI Mission, benefiting startups, researchers, students and aca...
26 Dec, 2024, 09.42 AM IST
IndiaAI mission GPU tender: 19 companies submit bidsThis initiative plans to make available 10,000 GPUs to support India's AI mission which will benefit startups, researchers, students, and a...
04 Dec, 2024, 12.24 AM IST
Govt eases sustainability push in AI GPU tender after pushbackThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has also extended the deadline for submitting bids to November 28 from Novem...
31 Oct, 2024, 06.01 AM IST
MeitY extends deadline for Rs 10,000 crore GPU tender to Nov 12 amid industry concernsThe tender aims to establish public AI cloud infrastructure with more than 10,000 GPUs through a public-private partnership. Some companies...
17 Oct, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Data centres are wary of sustainability push in govt’s AI mission GPU tenderAs per the new clause introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in a corrigendum to the bid issued in th...
09 Oct, 2024, 07.45 AM IST
Small companies can now chase India's giant AI dreamsSunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, which has placed a purchase order of 16,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia and went live with 4...
28 Sep, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
Firms scramble to build consortiums to be eligible for Rs 10,000-crore GPU planSmall and medium companies are racing to form partnerships with peers and cloud service providers to become eligible for the massive Rs 10,...
11 Sep, 2024, 08.20 AM IST
Global giants take AIm at India’s GPU ambitionNvidia, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks were among parti...
31 Aug, 2024, 06.01 AM IST