To accommodate start-ups, MeitY relaxes AI compute procurement norms

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has relaxed some provisions in its norms to procure computing capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) solutions under the country’s ambitious Rs 10,300 crore AI Mission. A number of smaller companies had earlier raised concerns that some of the ministry’s requirements were exclusionary and would have benefitted only bigger companies.

The relaxations come on account of a reduction in the annual turnover requirement for companies or consortia looking to set up such data centres, and on the computing capacity itself.