New Delhi, March 7 -- The Union government on Thursday launched two new platforms under its IndiaAI Mission: the IndiaAI Datasets Platform (called AIKosha) and the IndiaAI Compute Portal.

AIKosha provides access to multiple datasets and models to develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The compute portal allows researchers, academics, and startups to request access to powerful computing resources made available through more than 14,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from 10 companies at subsidised cost.

On the AIKosha portal, the ministry outlined eight use cases to illustrate how the datasets and models can be used to enhance public services. For instance, AI voice assistants for rural citizens could be built using datasets ...