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IndiaAI Mission is trying to address gaps in India's AI story: MeitY's Abhishek Singh
- IndiaAI Mission, an initiative by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), is addressing critical gaps in India's AI story, aiming to boost research and large-scale model development.
- The Mission provides affordable high-performance hardware and a dataset platform, AI Kosh, offering curated datasets for AI model training and deployment.
- IndiaAI Mission is working towards supporting foundation models and addressing the country's lag in patents, fundamental research, and large-scale models compared to the US and China.
- Efforts are also focused on building ethical AI systems, with tools being developed for auditing algorithms, bias mitigation, and ensuring compliance with ethical principles.
- To enhance regulatory capacity, India is focusing on developing tools to monitor AI applications while ensuring innovation and limiting harmful effects.
- While promoting inclusive access to AI services and startups, the Mission highlights challenges such as the need for patient capital, increased R&D expenditure, and digital infrastructure accessibility in multiple Indian languages.
- Initiatives like the Anusandhan National Research Foundation and the Deep Tech Startup Fund of Funds aim to bolster R&D funding, with substantial allocations by the government to support deep tech innovation.
- The focus is on deploying significant government-backed capital through fund-of-fund models to unlock greater investments and support startups in the AI and deep tech sectors.
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