India’s Common Compute Capacity Crosses 34,000 GPUs

India’s Common Compute Capacity Crosses 34,000 GPUs

India’s national compute capacity has crossed 34000 GPUs. Along with this, the selection of three new startups for building India’s own Foundation Model, the IndiaAI Mission has taken a significant leap toward strengthening indigenous AI capabilities.

Marking this milestone, Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw today announced several key initiatives at the ‘IndiaAI- Make AI in India, Make AI work for India’ event held in New Delhi aimed at advancing India’s AI journey.

Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw urged the newly selected teams under the IndiaAI Mission to aim for a top-five global position in their respective sectors. Emphasizing Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of democratization of technology, Union Minister Shri Vaishnaw said, “Technology should not be left in the hands of a few. It’s very important that a larger section of the society should be able to access technology, develop new solutions and get better opportunities. That’s the philosophy with which IndiaAI Mission was created. We are making significant progress in practically every pillar of the AI mission. Common compute is a very important principle of democratizing technology.”

Union Minister shared that 367 datasets have already been uploaded to AI Kosh. The Minister also underlined IndiaAI Mission’s role in fostering reverse brain drain, and creating a comprehensive ecosystem encompassing foundational models, compute capacity, safety standards, and talent development initiatives. He emphasized that these efforts are aimed at building a complete and inclusive AI ecosystem in India.

 

Three More Indigenous Foundation Models

The IndiaAI Foundation Model pillar within the Mission aims to develop and deploy indigenous foundational models trained on India-specific data. Since the Call for Proposals launch, 506 proposals have been received till April 30, 2025. On 26^th April 2025, Sarvam AI has been selected to build India’s Sovereign LLM Ecosystem, developing an open source 120 billion parameter AI model to enhance governance and public service access through use cases like “2047: Citizen Connect” and “AI4Pragati”. This follows the earlier launch of the Sarvam-1 model (2 billion parameters) and Sarvam-M (24B parameters) model with hybrid reasoning capabilities.

In addition to Sarvam AI, three more proposals have been selected following a rigorous multi-stage expert evaluation:

Expansion of compute capacity

Union Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced the additional 15,916 GPUs to the existing 18,417 empanelled GPUs creating a total of 34,333 GPUs with support of industry partners. This expanded compute capacity on cloud will provide a common computational AI platform for training and inference, crucial to develop indigenous foundational models and AI solutions tailored to the Indian context.

The seven bidders listed below have offered their commercials for various categories of AI compute units (GPUs) quoted in Table 1 and Table 2:

IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon

Under the IndiaAI Applications Development Initiative, Union Minister, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, announced the winners of the IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon, jointly organised with Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs as annexed in Annexure 1. The Hackathon resulted in the development of AI-based solutions to enhance the classification of cybercrime complaints and support the identification of emerging crime patterns, trends, and modus operandi on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCRP). These models can interpret complex inputs such as handwritten FIRs, screenshots, and audio calls with improved speed and accuracy.

About India AI

IndiaAI, an Independent Business Division under MeitY, is the implementation agency for the IndiaAI Mission. It strives to democratize the benefits of AI across all strata of society, bolster India’s leadership in AI, foster technological self-reliance, and ensure the ethical and responsible use of AI.

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Dharmendra Tewari/ Navin Sreejith

Table 1: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for On-Demand & One-Month Pricing

Sl. No.

AI Compute Unit (GPU) Category

On-Demand Pricing (Hourly Charges in ₹)

One-Month Pricing

(Hourly Charges in ₹)

L1 (lowest)

Bid Price

L1 (lowest)

Bidder

L1 (lowest Bid Price)

L1 (lowest) Bidder

1

AMD MI300X (1X)

168.224

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

165.048

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

2

AMD MI300X (2X)

378.504

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

371.358

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

3

AMD MI300X (4X)

757.008

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

742.716

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

4

AMD MI300X (8X)

1416.560

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

1389.904

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

5

AMD MI325X (1X)

169.200

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

123.3

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

6

AMD MI325X (2X)

338.400

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

246.6

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

7

AMD MI325X (4X)

676.800

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

493.2

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

8

AMD MI325X (8X)

1351.800

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

990

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

9

AWS Inferentia2 (1X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.xlarge)

79.60

Vensysco Technologies Limited

79.60

Vensysco Technologies Limited

10

AWS Inferentia2 (1X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.8xlarge)

206.57

Vensysco Technologies Limited

206.57

Vensysco Technologies Limited

11

AWS Inferentia2 (6X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.24xlarge)

681.35

Vensysco Technologies Limited

681.35

Vensysco Technologies Limited

12

AWS Inferentia2 (12X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.48xlarge)

1362.71

Vensysco Technologies Limited

1362.71

Vensysco Technologies Limited

13

AWS Trainium (1X) (32GB Memory; Trn1.2xlarge)

130.21

Vensysco Technologies Limited

130.21

Vensysco Technologies Limited

14

AWS Trainium (16X) (32GB Memory; trn1.32xlarge)

945.00

Vensysco Technologies Limited

945.00

Vensysco Technologies Limited

15

Intel Gaudi 2 (1X)

57.600

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

46.8

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

16

Intel Gaudi 2 (2X)

115.200

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

93.6

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

17

Intel Gaudi 2 (4X)

230.400

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

187.2

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

18

Intel Gaudi 2 (8X)

460.800

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

374.4

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

19

Intel Gaudi 3 (1X)

153.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

134.1

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

20

Intel Gaudi 3 (2X)

306.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

268.2

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

21

Intel Gaudi 3 (4X)

612.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

536.4

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

22

Intel Gaudi 3 (8X)

1224.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

1072.8

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

23

NVIDIA A100 40GB (8X)

3175.66

Vensysco Technologies Limited

3175.66

Vensysco Technologies Limited

24

NVIDIA A100 80GB (1X)

135.900

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

89.1

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

25

NVIDIA A100 80GB (2X)

271.800

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

178.2

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

26

NVIDIA A100 80GB (4X)

543.600

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

356.4

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

27

NVIDIA A100 80GB (8X)

1087.200

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

712.8

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

28

NVIDIA B200 SXM (1X)

323.00

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

308

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

29

NVIDIA B200 SXM (2X)

646.00

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

616

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

30

NVIDIA B200 SXM (4X)

1292.00

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

1232

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

31

NVIDIA B200 SXM (8X)

2584.00

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

2464

Yotta Data Services Private Limited

32

NVIDIA H100 NVL (1X)

168.74

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

135

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

33

NVIDIA H100 NVL (2X)

337.48

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

294.44

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

34

NVIDIA H100 NVL (4X)

674.96

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

588.88

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

35

NVIDIA H100 NVL (8X)

1349.92

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

1177.76

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

36

NVIDIA H100 PCIe (8X)

2008.00

Vensysco Technologies Limited

1864

Vensysco Technologies Limited

37

NVIDIA H100 SXM (1X)

153.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

134.1

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

38

NVIDIA H100 SXM (2X)

306.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

268.2

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

39

NVIDIA H100 SXM (4X)

612.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

536.4

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

40

NVIDIA H100 SXM (8X)

1224.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

1072.8

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

41

NVIDIA H200 PCIe (8X)

3236.80

Locuz Enterprise Solutions Limited

2737

Locuz Enterprise Solutions Limited

42

NVIDIA H200 SXM (1X)

140.00

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

135

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

43

NVIDIA H200 SXM (2X)

679.74

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

471.28

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

44

NVIDIA H200 SXM (4X)

1360.18

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

942.56

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

45

NVIDIA H200 SXM (8X)

1125.00

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

1100

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

46

NVIDIA L4 (1X)

45.07

Sify Digital Services Limited

29

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

47

NVIDIA L4 (2X)

98.84

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

58

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

48

NVIDIA L4 (4X)

196.68

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

116

Netmagic IT Services Pvt. Ltd

49

NVIDIA L4 (8X)

510.37

Sify Digital Services Limited

495.06

Sify Digital Services Limited

50

NVIDIA L40S (1X)

67.500

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

49.50

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

51

NVIDIA L40S (2X)

135.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

99

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

52

NVIDIA L40S (4X)

306.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

198

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

53

NVIDIA L40S (8X)

540.000

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

396

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

 

Table 2: L1 Bid Price and L1 Bidder for Six-Months & Twelve-Months Pricing

Sl. No.

AI Compute Unit (GPU Category)

Six-Months Pricing (Hourly Charges in ₹)

Twelve-Months Pricing

(Hourly Charges in ₹)

L1 (lowest)

Bid Price

L1 (lowest)

Bidder

L1 (lowest Bid Price)

L1 (lowest) Bidder

1

AMD MI300X (1X)

161.88

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

148.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

2

AMD MI300X (2X)

364.23

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

333.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

3

AMD MI300X (4X)

728.46

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

666.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

4

AMD MI300X (8X)

1363.20

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

1336.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

5

AMD MI325X (1X)

102.60

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

85.50

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

6

AMD MI325X (2X)

205.20

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

171.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

7

AMD MI325X (4X)

410.40

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

342.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

8

AMD MI325X (8X)

820.80

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

684.00

CyFuture India Pvt. Ltd.

9

AWS Inferentia2 (1X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.xlarge)

79.60

Vensysco Technologies Limited

50.15

Vensysco Technologies Limited

10

AWS Inferentia2 (1X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.8xlarge)

206.57

Vensysco Technologies Limited

130.17

Vensysco Technologies Limited

11

AWS Inferentia2 (6X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.24xlarge)

681.35

Vensysco Technologies Limited

429.27

Vensysco Technologies Limited

12

AWS Inferentia2 (12X) (32GB Memory; Inf2.48xlarge)

1362.71

Vensysco Technologies Limited

858.53

Vensysco Technologies Limited

 

Annexure I

Winners of IndiaAI I4C CyberGuard AI Hackathon

Team Lead

Names of the Team members

Affiliated Organization

Nisarg Gandhi

Patel Darshankumar Shankarbhai and Bhensdadiya Kevin Vasantbhai

S4AI Technologies LLP

Lasya Ippagunta

Shubham Luharuka and

Puneet Hegde

CloudSEK Information Security Limited

Meet Bisht

Rohit Ganaka and Yukta Chauhan

Voldebug Innovations Pvt. Ltd.

Aditi Singh (All women team)

Palak Garg and Riva Jain