Small companies can now chase India's giant AI dreams

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The government has halved the revenue threshold for companies seeking to bid for the Rs 10,000 crore graphics processing units (GPUs) tender, conceding a key demand of the industry that will allow even small enterprises to participate...

Sunil Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, which has placed a purchase order of 16,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia and went live with 4,000 H100 GPUs a few months ago, concurred..

By lowering turnover thresholds and introducing greater flexibility in AI compute infrastructure requirements, the government has made it easier for a diverse range of players including and especially the startups in the AI services space to contribute to this mission...

Top chip companies, cloud makers and cybersecurity firms have shown interest in the governments Rs 10,000 crore GPUs procurement tender, which is central to Indias AI Mission..

There will be tremendous demand eventually for these GPUs and companies today are trying to leverage this, they said.. ET had reported on September 11 that small and medium companies were scrambling to strike partnerships among themselves as well as with cloud service providers and large enterprises to build consortiums so that they could participate in the tender...

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