‘10,571 GPUs available for education institutes in TN to train students in AI’

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s challenges in training students in artificial intelligence (AI) may have less to do with a shortage of computing hardware than with the institutional failure to tap resources earmarked for them, according to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Secretary S Krishnan.

In a response to Tamil Nadu AI Association’s concerns over only a very few colleges in the state having access to computing systems with research-grade Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Krishnan said that academia and students are eligible end-users under IndiaAI Compute — a scheme offering subsidised access to GPU capacity through empanelled cloud providers. Some 10,571 GPUs have been allocated through the initiative to date, he told TNIE.