New Delhi, May 30 -- The Union government on Friday approved the empanelment of 15,640 new graphic processing unit (GPU) processors from data centre and cloud service providers, and also appointed three new startups that will get access to these chips for free, to train their artificial intelligence models.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani's Info Edge Ventures-backed AI startup, Gnani.ai, was one of the three startups appointed to build a sovereign foundational AI model for voice-based AI services. The startup will build a 14-billion parameter voice AI model and real-time speech processing and "advanced reasoning capabilities."Foundational AI models are typically better when they are based on larger volumes of training data. But, smaller models are ...