In a historic step toward driving India's artificial intelligence (AI) vision, Microsoft has joined hands with Yotta Data Services, India's premier sovereign cloud infrastructure company. The tie-up is set to bring cutting-edge AI capabilities within reach across India's public and private sectors, contributing to the government's India AI Mission and enabling a strong, market-driven AI ecosystem.
Strategic Alliance for AI Innovation
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Microsoft and Yotta Data Services have collaborated to drive AI adoption in India, with a focus on government institutions, IITs, startups, businesses, and software developers.
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The collaboration brings together Microsoft's Azure AI capabilities and Yotta's Shakti Cloud platform, enabling advanced AI capabilities for a wide range of Indian organizations.
Enabling the India AI Mission
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Yotta has been formally empaneled under the India AI Mission, a government program to establish India as a world leader in AI.
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Yotta will supply over 50% of the initiative's high-end GPU compute power, comprising over 9,216 GPUs (8,192 Nvidia H100 and 1,024 L40S GPUs), rolled out in phases from its NM1 data center.
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These resources will be accessible through the soon-to-be-launched India AI Mission portal, providing instant access to high-performance, low-latency AI compute power.
AI Infrastructure and Ecosystem Development
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The Shakti Cloud platform provides AI Labs for students, AI Workspaces, GPU-as-a-Service, and API endpoints for AI models, facilitating fast development and deployment.
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Yotta's hyperscale, AI-ready data centers will be used to train Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Small Language Models (SLMs).
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Innate safety features, content filtering, grounding detection, and protection of copyrights provide safe and responsible AI development.
Indigenous AI and Data Sovereignty Support
The collaboration aligns with the India AI Innovation Center's initiative to create indigenous core AI models, with training for all models done on locally hosted datasets to adhere to data sovereignty laws.
Market-Driven, Demand-Side Funding Model
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The India AI Mission follows a demand-side funding approach, which enables service providers such as Yotta to invest in infrastructure and provide AI services, with researchers, startups, and businesses paying on an as-need basis for access to GPUs.
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This method promotes a competitive, scalable, and sustainable AI environment, lessening the burden of large capital expenditures by end users.
Global Collaboration and Talent Development
Yotta has also empaneled Microsoft Azure AI, Sarvam AI, and Hanooman AI as partners, promoting greater accessibility to AI and building AI talent within India's sovereign cloud ecosystem.
These partnerships will enable Indian organizations to make use of top-class AI tools and innovate at scale.
Sources: The Hans India, Yotta Data Services, NDTV Profit, Economic Times CIO, CRN India, TechCircle, Elets CIO
