AI Kosha

Recently, the Union government launched ‘AI Kosha’, a platform aimed at providing datasets for developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and tools using locally sourced data.

• About AI Kosha: It is a platform for non-personal datasets to assist in AI model development.

o At launch, it contains 316 datasets, mainly focused on creating or validating language translation tools for Indian languages.

• Limited datasets also include: Telangana’s open data initiative (health data, 2011 Census data) → Satellite imagery from Indian satellites → Meteorological and pollution data.
• IndiaAI Mission & Compute Capacity: The IndiaAI Datasets Platform is one of the seven pillars of the IndiaAI Mission.

o The Compute Capacity pillar provides pooled access to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for startups and academia to train and run AI models.

o The government increased shared GPU capacity from 10,000 to 14,000 GPUs, with plans for quarterly expansion.

• Homegrown Foundational AI Model: The government is supporting efforts to develop a foundational AI model for India, similar to China’s DeepSeek.