Govt Plans to Double IndiaAI Mission Corpus to ₹20,000 Crore

Mumbai, September 17, 2025: The Union Government is undertaking crucial steps to ramp up the country’s computing infrastructure. Top consideration is being given to anything and everything related to AI. There are talks to increase the funding for the IndiaAI Mission to about ₹20,000 crore from the existing ₹10,372 crore over the course of the next five years. The main pillars of the mission, which was approved in March 2025, will include Compute Capacity, Innovation Centres, Datasets Platform, Application Development, Future Skills, Startup Financing, and Safe & Trusted AI.

Expanded Funding Focus

The proposed investment strongly reflects the government’s ambition to broaden the mission’s scope of supporting more advanced AI projects and startups. The fund allocation will cover many critical areas, such as onboarding additional Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), subsidising compute infrastructure, and bringing more startups and companies under the IndiaAI umbrella.

The primary aim of this mission is to build indigenous foundational models such as large language models (LLMs), large reasoning models, small language models, and other AI systems specifically tailored to Indian needs.

Startups Selected

As of now, four startups have been shortlisted for building foundation models. These are Sarvam, SoketAI, Gan AI, and Gnani AI. Each firm has been assigned a specific task – Sarvam is working on a sovereign large language model; SoketAI is building a 120-billion-parameter open-source model optimised for India’s linguistic diversity; Gan AI is focusing on a multilingual foundation model; and Gnani AI is developing a voice AI model with multilingual, real-time speech processing and reasoning features.

Compute Capacity Growth

Compute infrastructure under the IndiaAI Mission has also grown. Earlier this year, IndiaAI’s GPU count was about 18,417. It has now expanded to nearly 40,000 GPUs, providing more access for startups, researchers, and industry. This computing power is crucial for training large AI models.

Timeline & Uncertainties

While discussions about doubling the corpus are reportedly ongoing, the exact schedule and final amounts are not yet confirmed. Government sources indicate that increases will be rolled out in phases. Stakeholders are awaiting clear timelines and guidelines for disbursement under the expanded budget.

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