- Yotta will provide more than 50% of the advanced GPU compute capacity of the AI Mission, which shall soon be available via the upcoming India AI Mission portal.
- It will grant instant access to high-end GPUs for the India AI Mission via its Shakti Cloud platform, ensuring ultra-low latency, high-performance computing, and a secure infrastructure to support AI innovation in India.
- Yotta has also empaneled the services of its partners, Microsoft Azure AI, Sarvam AI, and Hanooman AI, with the India AI Mission to support AI advancements within India’s sovereign cloud.
Yotta Data Services has been officially empaneled under the India AI Mission, a Government of India initiative aimed at strengthening the country’s position in artificial intelligence (AI). As an AI and cloud services provider, Yotta brings GPU capacity, AI platforms, and a sovereign cloud infrastructure to facilitate AI-driven innovation in India.With over 9,216 advanced GPUs committed to the India AI Mission (to be made available in phases), including 8,192 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and 1,024 L40S GPUs, Yotta’s Shakti Cloud delivers AI compute power to government entities, startups, and enterprises. Its offerings include AI Labs for students, AI Workspaces, GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), and API endpoints for AI models. These services are available from Yotta’s NM1 campus, India’s largest data center, offering access to GPU computing power. The architecture of the Uptime Institute Tier IV Certified NM1 data center enables organizations to consume AI resources on demand.Yotta is contributing to India’s AI ecosystem by supporting the India AI Innovation Center’s initiative to develop indigenous foundational models. With its hyperscale data centers and AI-ready cloud infrastructure, it provides the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities essential for training Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Small Language Models (SLMs). By offering access to GPU and TPU clusters, it reduces the need for heavy upfront investments in hardware, allowing Indian researchers, startups, and entrepreneurs to accelerate AI development. Its secure data hosting solutions ensure AI models are trained on locally stored datasets in line with data sovereignty regulations. Additionally, structured and unstructured data lakes support robust model training.Yotta has collaborated with Microsoft Azure AI, Sarvam AI, and Hanooman AI to enhance AI accessibility and talent development, enabling organizations to use AI tools within India’s sovereign cloud ecosystem. These collaborations support research institutions, startups, and enterprises in advancing AI development.
Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, CEO, and MD of Yotta, highlighted the India AI Mission’s approach to AI infrastructure and innovation. Instead of directly investing in data centers, purchasing GPUs, and managing AI infrastructure, the government has chosen to enable service providers to take on investment risks, deploy GPUs, and operate AI services on a cloud-based model. This initiative follows a demand-side funding strategy, providing financial resources directly to researchers, startups, and enterprises that require GPU access for training and deploying AI models. This allows them to pay for AI services from the private sector, supporting a competitive AI ecosystem. By focusing on policy and governance, the India AI Mission allows AI ecosystem players to innovate and scale at various layers of AI development. This approach supports a scalable AI industry capable of addressing India’s AI needs.
Gupta encouraged Indian enterprises and startups to align with the government’s vision of made-in-India AI models and utilize Yotta’s available capacity to develop their own LLM models.
He also acknowledged the India AI Mission team for their role in advancing India’s AI capabilities. He recognized Mr. Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary at MeitY and CEO of the India AI Mission, for his leadership in AI governance and policy. He also acknowledged Ms. Kavita Bhatia, COO of the India AI Mission and Scientist G at MeitY, and Mr. Sushil Kumar Jangid, Scientist ‘B’ in the AI & Emerging Technologies Group at MeitY, for their contributions to democratizing AI access. Additionally, he highlighted Mr. Abhishek Das, GM-Compute at India AI Mission and formerly Joint Director at C-DAC Pune, for his work in high-performance computing and AI infrastructure.
By integrating AI infrastructure, Yotta is supporting India’s digital transformation and AI accessibility across key sectors.
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