Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What actually changed The IndiaAI Mission has now deployed 34,000+ subsidised GPUs at ₹150 per GPU-hour (~£1.40 / ~$1.80 at late-May 2026 rates) through its empanelled cloud partners. The original Mission was sanctioned at ₹10,000 crore (~$1.25 bn) in 2024; the 2026-27 Union Budget added a further ₹10,372 crore, potentially doubling the programme to around ₹20,000 crore. That top-up explicitly moves IndiaAI from what officials describe as a "capex-heavy research phase" to a "population-scale deployment phase". The empanelled compute pool runs alongside the 12 selected sovereign-LLM partners (Sarvam, BharatGen and others) and feeds the developer demand visible on platforms like Krutrim's cloud, which reports 25,000+ developers actively building on Indian infrastructure. Meanwhile in the…
