More than 37 per cent of respondents in a pre-budget survey said they expect the overall quality of life for ordinary people to deteriorate over the next year, the highest such percentage since 2013, findings released by polling agency C-Voter showed on Wednesday

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🚨🤖IndiaAI Mission: Govt prepares to launch GPU access portal as China's DeepSeek escalates #AI race

The announcement of the successful bidder for procuring graphics processing units (GPUs) under the IndiaAI Mission is expected this week, and the government is currently putting the finishing touches on the portal from which startups and researchers can access these GPUs, a government official said.

"The government has been working on making the portal, and we are nearly done developing it," said a senior government official. Through this portal, startups and researchers can access the highly valued GPUs necessary for training AI models at lower prices.

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Govt will introduce The Immigration and Foreigners Bill in Budget Session to deal with influx of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas.(Sources)

Take this news with a pinch of salt though!

#NationalSecurity

Yu Jing - Applauding for "Adi Kavya", a Ramayana dance-drama, staged in Beijing, by a cast of around 80 performers from China.
#InternationalNews #NWO #Heritage

India to develop its own GenAl model, to be rolled out in 8-10 months, says IT Minister

#AI

"I am very happy to say, that against 10,000- gpus, we have actually empanelled 18,693 gpus"

"Our startups researchers, academia, they all want to access compute facility. that's why in the India AI mission we have taken the common compute as the most important part of the mission"
12,896 are (Nvidia) H100s, 1,480 are (Nvidia) H200s -- the most powerful GPUs.
Overall net high end GPUs we have 15,000 GPUs in the entire process.
To give context, DeepSeek was trained on 2,000 GPUs

Ashwini Vaishnaw: This will be used for creating AI models, distillation processes, new algorithms

Roughly, 10,000 GPUs (out of the 18,693) are available today.

"The second big mission of the IndiaAI mission was to develop an AI model. Our teams have been working with startups, academia"

"We have now created the framework which will be launched today. We are calling for proposals to develop our own foundational models, where the Indian context, the Indian languages, the culture of our country where the biases can be removed. Where the datasets, for our country, for our citizens -- that process will start today"

"We believe that there are at least 6 major developers who can develop AI models in the 6-8 months on the outer limit, and 4-6 months on a more optimistic estimate"

#AI

A surge in gold shipments to the US has led to a shortage of bullion in London, as traders amass an $82bn stockpile in New York over fears of Trump administration tariffs. #Economy #InternationalNews

https://www.ft.com/content/86a5fafd-603e-4ee1-9620-39b5f4465f53

I hope the same will happen with Bharat!

#AI #Research #Meme

"We will soon host Deepseek on Indian servers" - Ashvini Vaishnaw #AI

https://x.com/bookwormengr/status/1884176350652801212

#Opinion #AI

BRICS grain exchange is in development and has potential to become a landmark project for the alliance, Russian Deputy Minister of Agriculture says.

#Geopolitics #Dedollarisation

Budget Session of the Parliament begins with Joint Session addressed by President Draupadi Murmu

#Parliament

Canadian dollar responds by falling to 25% tariff from US

#Geopolitics #Dedollarisation

"Economic progress of India is deeply tied to the aspirations of the MIDDLE class & their fulfillment" Prez. Smt. Murmu

#Parliament