Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that India will soon host Chinese AI platform DeepSeek on local servers to address the privacy concerns regarding the cross-border data transfer.
In a press conference on IndiaAI Mission, the minister said that since DeepSeek is an open source AI model, it can be hosted on Indian servers.
“Our team is already working on this project. We have prepared the framework and other details such as how many servers are required and how much capacity is required,” Vaishnaw said.
He added that all the open source models will soon be hosted on Indian servers in line with the country’s data privacy concerns.
Recently DeepSeek made shockwaves in the technology ecosystem when it managed to develop its own large language model with only 2,000 Nvidia H800 GPUs while OpenAI relies on 100,000 GPUs (the more advanced H100). Moreover, the Chinese company claims to achieve this with an investment of $6 Mn against OpenAIs $100 Mn investment.
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