India, April 24 -- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) may offer incentives to startups such as Sarvam AI, Soket AI Labs, Gnani.ai and Gan.ai for building frontier AI models under the IndiaAI Mission.

The government is looking to finalise the "first set" of proposals for building indigenous foundational AI models this month.

An ET report, citing sources, said that Sarvam AI is likely to receive graphics processing unit (GPU) compute power worth INR 200 Cr from the Centre for free.

IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw may announce the final list of awardees in the first set in the next few days.

"The committee has almost finalised the names. It should be announced soon," an official told ET.

Sarvam had pitched to de...