At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the Minister of State for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India (MeitY), Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that India has created a common compute platform connected to 38,000 additional GPUs at an affordable rate.
The minister further said that this has been designed for startups, academia, researchers and students. An additional 20,000 GPUs will be connected to this common compute system.
Vaishnav said, “We have a robust grid which has been practically rebuilt over the last decade. In this context, we are building our AI ecosystem.
On the talent front, he further said that the government is conscious of the challenges faced by the IT industry, and to mitigate them, it is working with the industry and academia to upskill and reskill, and to build a new talent pipeline for this new intelligence age.
Commenting on the risks, he said, “We must also find collective solutions for mitigating the risks by placing human safety and dignity at the heart of AI. Let us shape an AI future of the humans by the humans and for the humans.”
