‘IndiaAI Mission, Parl ink pact for local AI tech, GPU chip in 3-5 yrs’

New Delhi: IndiaAI Mission has signed an agreement with Parliament to leverage the latter’s data for the development of an indigenous artificial intelligence technology, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday.

During a panel discussion at ORF’s Raisina Dialogue 2025, Vaishnaw said it is important to develop our own LLM (large language model like ChatGPT) as open source technology available at present may not remain open in future like OpenAI.

“The most important part of the entire AI journey is getting the data sets. We have set up a common compute kind of structure called AI Kosh. Today morning, the India AI Mission and the Indian Parliament, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) because Parliament has built a very large data sets in multiple languages over a period of time. That will be a very good training resource for training our models,” Vaishnaw said.

He said there are many similar data sources available through organisations like Doordarshan, All India Radio, etc.

OpenAI and Elon Musk are in a legal tussle over transition of OpenAI from non-profit to a for-profit organisation.

Vaishnaw in a lighter note said that maybe OpenAI should change its name as well, if it becomes a proprietary technology.

He said that developing the country’s own GPU (graphics processing unit) chip is very important and the government has already started working on it with the industry.

When asked about the timelines for having indigenous GPU capability, Vaishnaw said, “In three to five years to get our good, reasonably good capability, GPU up and running. Basically, there are two approaches which we are evaluating seriously – two different types of instruction sets.

Which one will we finalize, or will we take both the instruction sets and move forward? That is something which the experts need to decide,” the minister said.

Indo-US Venture Partners Founder and executive managing partner Vinod Dham, also known as father of Pentium processors, said that the timeline given by the minister for the development of GPU is fairly reasonable. He said that India should leverage the OpenAI model to build its own AI model but should not use western AI models to do confidential things.