India Unveils Massive AI Computing Plan to Rival China

India's AI group calls for massive national AI computing infrastructure of 80 exaFLOPS across 3 tiers high-end compute for training, mid-range for inference, and edge compute.

The plan includes thousands of GPUs and up to 200-400 PB of storage across centers around India.

The investment aims to boost India's supercomputing capacity from just 3 systems currently to 24.

China recently announced plans for 150 exaFLOPS of additional power, surpassing India's goal.

The plan calls for assembling national datasets for AI training and proposes pricing models to access the data.