Ashwini Vaishnaw launches AI Compute Portal, 9 times larger than DeepSeek; announces 27 AI labs

Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, launched the AI Compute Portal in New Delhi on Thursday. The platform is designed to provide researchers, startups, and government agencies with access to high-powered computing resources, including advanced Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

At the launch, Vaishnaw announced that the government is in the process of establishing 27 AI data laboratories.