New Delhi, March 6 -- Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the AI Compute Portal in New Delhi on Thursday, media reports said.

The platform aims to provide high-powered computing resources, including advanced Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), to researchers, startups, and government agencies for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

He also stated that applications for developing foundational AI models had been received and were under review.

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