India Lauds Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek, Plans To Host Its Models on Local Servers

India's IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek's progress and said the country will host the Chinese AI lab's large language models on domestic servers, in a rare opening for Chinese technology in India. From a report: "You have seen what DeepSeek has done -- $5.5 million and a very very powerful model," IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, responding to criticism New Delhi has received for its own investment in AI, which has been much less than many other countries.

Since 2020, India has banned more than 300 apps and services linked to China, including TikTok and WeChat, citing national security concerns. The approval to allow DeepSeek to be hosted in India appears contingent on the platform storing and processing all Indian users' data domestically, in line with India's strict data localization requirements. [...] DeepSeek's models will likely be hosted on India's new AI Compute Facility. The facility is powered by 18,693 graphics processing units (GPUs), nearly double its initial target -- almost 13,000 of those are Nvidia H100 GPUs, and about 1,500 are Nvidia H200 GPUs.

the future

[fluffernutter]

Now will someone build another even more inexpensive model off of deepseek and so on until I can build an LLM off of my one GPU?

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[vlad30]

Yes AI models will be run on cheaper hardware Apple is already getting your phone to respond with AI without going to the cloud based high cpu for privacy i.e. the trained model is on your device

Training the AI still appears to take huge amounts of CPU and time and data. I expect the Deepseek did not have to worry about copyright or licensing data or if they did it was for appearances. They are also rumoured to have bought a large quantity of blackmarket NVIDIA chips which they used for training. Additiona

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[stabiesoft]

Yeah, I find it interesting that many of the "green" techies are damn the torpedoes full speed ahead with AI. And the result is stuff like https://finance.yahoo.com/news... [yahoo.com] which is carbon generation to meet the power requirements. And make no mistake, this is about providing cheap power to data centers while we meat sacks pay a premium for green power.

open source

[gitano_dbs]

In the long run i tink open source models will win, as more models expand on top of deepseek. I hoped for a GPL license on deepseek to accelerate this, but looks like deepssek its MIT license, allowing for make propietary ones on top of it too.

This is a good thing

[MpVpRb]

Investors and monopolists want to control AI and make everybody pay a lot to use it
There are a LOT of smart people in the world who want to see it available to all
It's the monopolists vs the open source geeks
You couldn't write a better sci-fi story

Why no Indian LLM?

[larryjoe]

India supposedly has tons of tech expertise. Why isn't India developing their own AI industry instead of welcoming with open arms a rival country that they distrust? In the recent past, India has banned top Chinese apps and telelcom equipment, restricted Chinese investment, and banned Chinese bidding on infrastructure projects. And in contrast to the cold war between the US and China, India has had actual military battles and deaths in confronting China.

DeepSeek has shown that developing leading AI model

Re: Why no Indian LLM?

[junglee_iitk]

Because Indians are developong it for the US.

DeepSikh?

[JavaTHut]

Will they call theirs DeepSikh?