Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw met with senior Nvidia officials on Thursday to talk about the creation of the sovereign graphics processing unit and the production of advanced data processing devices in India.

Nvidia leads the global graphics processing unit (GPU) market, holding more than 80% of the share.
Its GPUs are in great demand worldwide to aid in the advancement of artificial intelligence technologies.

"Met with the NVIDIA team to talk about the advancement of sovereign GPUs and the production of edge devices such as DGX Spark. This machine provides performance reaching 1 petaFLOP with secure inferencing for models containing up to 200 billion parameters. This small GPU operates without needing the Internet. Applicable for railways, shipping, healthcare, education and remote uses," Vaishnaw stated on the social media platform X.

The minister posted a picture of his meeting with Nvidia's South Asia managing director, Vishal Dhupar, on X.

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Earlier this week, Nvidia showcased at the CES trade show how the DGX Spark and DGX Station deskside AI supercomputers allow developers to utilize the newest open and frontier AI models on a local deskside setup, ranging from 100-billion-parameter models on DGX Spark to 1-trillion-parameter models on DGX Station.
In the first half of 2025, Vaishnaw stated that India would create its own Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in the upcoming 3 to 4 years.

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The government is actively facilitating the acquisition of GPUs and subsidizing their accessibility for AI technology developers in the nation.

Starting with a target of 10,000 GPUs, India has rolled out 38,000 GPUs as part of the India AI Mission. The government has provided all GPUs for a subsidized cost of Rs 65 per hour.

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The government has chosen twelve startups to create native AI engines. These include Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani AI, Gan AI, Avaatar AI, IIT Bombay consortium - BharatGen, Zenteiq, Gen Loop, Intellihealth, Shodh AI, Fractal Analytics, Tech Mahindra Maker's Lab.