{"id":993589,"date":"2026-02-18T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993589"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:59:16","slug":"union-minster-ashwini-vaishnaw-outlines-indiaai-mission-2-0-rd-push-ai-diffusion-and-a-upi-style-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/union-minster-ashwini-vaishnaw-outlines-indiaai-mission-2-0-rd-push-ai-diffusion-and-a-upi-style-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minster Ashwini Vaishnaw outlines IndiaAI Mission 2.0: R&amp;D push, AI diffusion, and a UPI-style playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has outlined the contours of IndiaAI Mission 2.0, signalling a decisive shift toward research and development, deeper AI diffusion, and making artificial intelligence work for India&#8217;s massive MSME sector. The announcement comes as the country hosts host the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Vaishnaw said Mission 2.0 will build on what the first phase achieved\u2014a shared compute infrastructure of over 38,000 GPUs available at \u20b965 per hour, sovereign AI models that have outperformed several global counterparts on key benchmarks, and a skilling programme spanning over 100 colleges. Stanford, he noted, has rated India among the top three AI nations globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has outlined the contours of IndiaAI Mission 2.0, signalling a decisive shift toward research and development, deeper AI diffusion, and making artificial intelligence work for India&#8217;s massive MSME sector. The announcement comes as the country hosts host the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Vaishnaw said Mission 2.0 will build on what the first phase achieved\u2014a shared compute infrastructure of over 38,000 GPUs available at \u20b965 per hour, sovereign AI models that have outperformed several global counterparts on key benchmarks, and a skilling programme spanning over 100 colleges. Stanford, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}