India, April 2 -- With the Centre stepping up its efforts to develop public AI cloud infrastructure under the IndiaAI Mission, companies such as Reliance Jio and CtrlS, which have emerged as as the lowest price (L1) bidders in the tender for sourcing graphics processing units (GPUs), will reportedly get AI workloads by the second week of April.

The ten tech companies that include E2E, NxtGen and Locuz other than the aforementioned companies have offered 14,517 GPUs at L1 rates against the tender for 10,000 GPUs.

GPU is a specialised chip that renders graphics and images by performing rapid mathematical calculations that are needed in processing AI.

An ET report, citing IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh, said that some of the L1 bidder...