Union Minister of Railways and Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Thursday that Indian servers will house the new Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek and address privacy concerns surrounding it.

Because DeepSeek's AI models were developed by a Chinese AI company, user safety has become a concern since its launch.

Addressing a press briefing here, the Union Minister said hosting DeepSeek on Indian servers will address cross-border data transfers.

"DeepSeek is open source and will host it on Indian servers soon. This will address the privacy concerns regarding cross-border data transfer," the Minister said.

DeepSeek, which was founded by Liang Wenfeng, the leader of a quant fund, has caused a global selloff in tech stocks.

Vaishnaw also emphasized the nation's advancements in the IndiaAI Mission, which has already greatly exceeded its original GPU goals.


The initiative, which currently has 18,693 GPUs available, intends to offer resources to businesses, startups, and researchers nationwide. Notably, 1,480 H200 GPUs are among the 15,000 high-end GPUs that have been purchased.

Simultaneously, 2,000 and 25,000 GPUs were used to train models such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT.

According to the Minister, over the next two to three years, an estimated $30 billion will be invested in India for data centers and hyperscalers.

"Roughly 10,000 GPUs are now available for use starting today," Vaishnaw stated.


Additionally, the Minister announced that a shared computer facility for researchers will be up and running in two days. For many AI initiatives in India, this facility will be an essential resource.

Amid reports that Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether DeepSeek copied their APIs, DeepSeek is being promoted as an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

In the meantime, the Italian Data Protection Authority has received a complaint from Euroconsumers, a coalition of European consumer groups, regarding DeepSeek's handling of GDPR-related personal data.