AI compute mission best served by marketplace model, say experts
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Experts suggest that the AI compute mission in India should be served through a marketplace model, where private players compete to offer hardware, cloud solutions, and other services. The government's role would be to enable and facilitate this marketplace, rather than acquiring and installing GPUs themselves. The government could acquire compute capacity from hyperscalers and offer it at subsidized rates to startups and researchers. However, experts caution that the government should only buy and install capacities for critical areas like defense research, while leaving the market forces to handle the deployment of GPUs. Private investors and capital allocators are better suited to take these bets, and the government should focus on providing subsidies and becoming a customer for Indian servers. The government's AI marketplace model is seen as an appropriate approach to support startups, research institutions, and other vendors in the AI ecosystem.

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