Ashwini Vaishnav challenged TCS, Infosys and Wipro to create an Indian mobile operating system
The mobile market in India has become very big, many companies in the country are working on making smartphones. However, the country has not yet been able to make its own operating system. Union Information and Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has challenged the country’s technology companies to create an operating system for mobile phones. During the 32nd ICT Business Awards and DQ Digital Leadership Conclave organized by Dataquest India, Vaishnav asked companies like TCS, Infosys and Wipro to transform from service providers to product developers and develop mobile operating systems. He said that India needs to become a product nation and companies trying for this will also get government support.
Vaishnav said during the event that “From this platform, I would like to challenge big tech companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro to develop operating systems for mobile and they should accept this challenge and create operating systems for our country.”
Focus on AI
Vaishnav said that the government is committed to Artificial Intelligence (AI). He said that work is underway on 5 units and said that this year the country should roll out its first chip made in India. Apart from this, he launched the AI Compute Portal, which will provide researchers, startups and government agencies access to GPUs and high-powered computing resources designed specifically for AI tasks.
Launch of computing facility for GPUs
Vaishnav said that “We have launched the first common compute facility for 14 thousand GPUs. These 14 thousand GPUs will now be available to all our researchers, students and startups, so that they can test their own AI models, algorithms and create applications that will conquer the world. We are moving forward with this vision and hope that after 12 months from now we will also have our own foundational models.” He said that in the third term of the government, focus will be on creating many autonomous AI models. The second goal is to create problem-specific small models, the third is to develop graphics processing units (GPUs), the fourth is to provide support to startups and the fifth is to advance talent.
