India's IT minister has praised Chinese startup DeepSeek for shaking up the sector with its low-cost AI assistant, likening its frugal approach to his government's efforts to build a localized AI model.

India has announced its global AI ambitions, aiming to create its own foundational model to compete with giants like ChatGPT. With 18,693 GPUs set for use, the country is focusing on cost-effective AI development aligned with Indian contexts,

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Under the IndiaAI Mission, the government has also selected 18 application-level AI solutions for the first round of funding.

India is set to develop its own generative AI model, joining the ranks of global players like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave. The initiative will be powered by the India AI Compute Facility,

Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state dismissed rumours shared thousands of times on social media that they had arrested a Muslim man who dressed as a Hindu monk in an apparent bid to attack the Hindu mega-festival Kumbh Mela.

Vaishnaw stated, "We believe that there are at least six major developers who can develop AI models in the six to eight months on the outer limit, and four to six months on a more optimistic estimate.

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand.

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini but at a fraction of the cost.

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Neither OpenAI, India’s IT ministry, nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office have commented on the visit yet.