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14 resources: 5 curated specifically for Builders. All free.
Deploy India's sovereign language model locally or on cloud. Official guidance from IndiaAI including API access and fine-tuning instructions.
ReadKrutrim's API for building Indian-language applications. Supports 22 languages with low-latency inference on Indian cloud infra.
ReadThe Government of India's IndiaAI Mission provides subsidised GPU compute to Indian AI startups, researchers, and institutions through empanelled cloud providers. Apply via the IndiaAI portal. Allocated 10,000+ GPUs specifically for Indian organisations: much cheaper than AWS/GCP for qualifying entities.
ReadGoogle Cloud's Mumbai (asia-south1) and Delhi (asia-south2) regions support Vertex AI, Gemini API, Vision AI, and Speech-to-Text with Indian data residency. ₹20,000 free credits for new accounts. Relevant for DPDP Act compliance: keeps data within India for regulated industries.
ReadSarvam AI (Indian startup) provides speech and language AI APIs for Indian languages: ASR, TTS, translation, and transliteration. Built by ex-Google and ex-Anthropic researchers. DPIIT-recognised startup. Competitive pricing in INR. Better than global models on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu vernacular.
ReadGoogle Colab gives you a free NVIDIA T4 GPU in the browser. No setup, no hardware. Perfect for running ML models, Jupyter notebooks, and fine-tuning experiments from any Indian city. Works on 4G.
ReadHugging Face Spaces lets you host any ML model as a web app for free. 100,000+ open models including Llama, Mistral, and Whisper. India's AI builders use it for rapid prototyping without cloud bills.
ReadBhashini is India's national language AI platform: free APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation across 22 official Indian languages. Built by MeitY, free for Indian developers.
ReadIIT Madras's AI4Bharat provides free open-source models: IndicBERT (text), IndicTrans2 (translation), Dhruva (speech), and Sarvam (voice). All trained on Indian language data. API access is free.
ReadLangChain is the standard framework for building LLM-powered applications: chatbots, RAG systems, agents, and pipelines. Free, open-source, extensive docs. Start with the Python quickstart.
ReadVercel's free AI SDK connects Next.js or React apps to any LLM (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Groq) in minutes. Handles streaming, tool calls, and multi-step agents. Indian developers use it with Krutrim too.
ReadE2E Networks is India's GPU cloud provider: A100, H100, and RTX 4090s at 40–60% lower cost than AWS/Azure. Ideal for Indian startups and researchers who need training compute inside India.
ReadReplicate hosts 10,000+ open-source models as APIs. Run Stable Diffusion, Llama, Whisper, and more with a single API call. Pay-per-use, no server management. Good for Indian developers testing ideas.
ReadKaggle gives 30 hours/week of free GPU (P100/T4) with 100GB storage. India has one of Kaggle's largest user bases. Use it for competitions, learning, and running ML experiments.
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