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India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers
India's IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek's progress and said the country will host the Chinese AI lab's large language models on domestic servers, India will host Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek's large language model on domestic servers
“You have seen what DeepSeek has done — $5.5 million and a very very powerful model,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, responding to criticism New Delhi has received for its own investment in AI, which has been much less than many other countries. One of the country’s biggest conglomerates, Reliance, is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in the city of Jamnagar, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts, Bloomberg reported last week. To oversee development of these AI initiatives, India will establish a regulatory body using what Vaishnaw described as a “hub-and-spoke model,” allowing multiple institutions to collaborate on safety frameworks.
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