Union Minister for Electronics and IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, today emphasized that access to large public datasets will be crucial for the growth of AI in India. Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2025 in New Delhi, Mr Vaishnaw said that a large corpus of datasets, called AI Kosh, has been built, along with several other multilingual data sources. He mentioned that making GPUs available as a common compute facility is underway, with around 14,000 GPUs already inaugurated.
Highlighting that the most important aspect of the AI journey is obtaining datasets, the Minister said that the government has set up a common compute structure called AI Kosh. He further underscored that the MoU between the India AI Mission and the Indian Parliament was signed today, as Parliament has a vast dataset in multiple languages accumulated over a long period. Mr. Vaishnaw said that in the short term, the country must prepare its IT industry for AI. In the medium term, it must establish its own LLMs and ensure that universities upgrade their curricula. He added that in the long term, India must continuously invest in new technologies and take the lead in AI by 2047.