India plans 10,000-GPU sovereign AI supercomputer

India's government has approved a ₹10,300 Crore ($1.24 billion) funding package to bolster the nation's AI infrastructure. The cornerstone of the effort is a planned supercomputer that will have at least 10,000 GPUs. The government has released no other details of the machine – which will be part of the "IndiaAI Compute …

[Rikki Tikki]

Good that India is at least trying to develop indigenous LLMs. OTOH, I tend to feel that LLMs generally don't help much in the preservation of endangered languages. These can occur in surprising places, not just India - I met a professional couple from Jakarta recently, but "sorry, we don't speak Betawi, only Indonesian".

[david 12]

Which is to say, "I don't speak Cockney, only BBC". Unlike the surrounding area of Java (which speaks Javanese languages), Jakarta itself (a colonial city which had a population of slaves and economic migrants), speaks intelligible but not identical dialects of Malay.

[Badgerfruit]

An expensive paperweight

Perhaps the first question they can ask it could be: could this 1.4 billion have been spent to help with the huge poverty problems instead?

[katrinab]

Re: An expensive paperweight

In theory at least, that is the sort of thing you would do to help with the huge poverty problems.

[HuBo]

Very nice

"a planned supercomputer that will have at least 10,000 GPUs"

That should bring them compute horsepower similar to the MS-Eagle and EOS-DFW twins, which is quite nice (#3 on the current Top500). I wonder if the CPU part could be based on POWER11.