India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the country will host DeepSeek's large language models on Indian servers, marking a rare acceptance of Chinese technology amid previous bans. This development follows criticism of India's relatively low investment in AI compared to other nations. The facility set up for this purpose has acquired nearly 19,000 GPUs and will offer computing services at discounts. Vaishnaw highlighted the importance of ensuring data privacy by storing Indian user data domestically, establishing a framework for potential future collaborations with other Chinese firms.
"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.
"Data privacy issues regarding DeepSeek can be addressed by hosting open-source models on Indian servers," Vaishnaw said at an industry conference.
The facility will also offer computing services at steep discounts to firms in India. Vaishnaw said standard AI computing would be offered at a 42% discount to market rates.
The minister's remarks come a day after DeepSeek's eponymous app was taken off Apple's and Google's app stores in Italy, after that country's data protection regulator said it was asking how the Chinese firm was using and storing Italians' personal data.
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