India, March 26 -- In an effort to push AI advancement in India, the Centre is reportedly inviting private entities, including startups to share anonymous, non-personal datasets of their users to the AIKosha platform.

An ET report, citing a government official, said that the move aims at scaling up AI apps in the country, besides enabling access to enough data for training large language models (LLMs).

It further said that companies such as Google, Uber and PhonePe can share anonymised datasets of usage patterns on their websites without disclosing the identity or any other personal details of their users.

"Several companies had reached out to the government with interest in contributing to AIKosha, so the department decided to release...