Yotta Launches India’s First GenAI Chatbot Using DeepSeek
Yotta Data Services, on Tuesday, launched ‘myShakti’, India’s first fully sovereign B2C generative AI chatbot, built on the DeepSeek open-source AI model. The chatbot operates entirely on Indian servers, ensuring data security and privacy. Deployed within Yotta’s NM1 data centre, myShakti runs on an advanced server infrastructure comprising 16 nodes of H100 GPUs—a total of 128 H100s, as the company announced on LinkedIn. The beta version is now available for free as a web application here: myShakti.ai. Darshan Hiranandani, CEO of the Hiranandani Group and chairman of Yotta Data Services, said, “Yotta’s myShakti is a response to the clarion call given by Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to host DeepSeek within Indian borders. This initiative underscores our dedication to making India self-reliant for its AI needs.” Yotta has integrated a comprehensive feedback mechanism to refine and improve myShakti over time. According to the official blog, the chatbot aims to accelerate AI adoption in India by lowering infrastructure costs and making AI accessible to businesses, researchers, and startups. “The integration of DeepSeek is a true game-changer. Its open-source nature and low compute requirements drastically reduce costs, accelerating AI adoption much like the mobile revolution that transformed India,” Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said. He added, “This could be India’s Sputnik moment for AI—an inflexion point that propels the nation to the forefront of global AI innovation.” DeepSeek’s model challenges traditional AI infrastructure reliance by proving that efficiency can rival raw computational power. Using just $5.6 million worth of older GPUs, DeepSeek has demonstrated the potential of reinforcement learning to train competitive AI models. This development presents an opportunity for India to build AI tailored to its socio-cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical needs while maintaining data sovereignty. Yotta remains committed to advancing India’s AI capabilities. It plans to continuously enhance its capabilities and develop sovereign AI solutions in the generative AI space. When US President Donald Trump announced Project Stargate in January, India got talking about building in the country. India building its own Project Stargate was portrayed as a necessity, with many tech leaders weighing in on the conversation. In a previous interaction with AIM, Abhishek Upperwal, founder and CEO of Soket AI Labs, had expressed building DeepSeek-style innovation in India. When asked if they were building it, he said, “Yes, we definitely are! It won’t be a 671B parameter one (to begin with), but it’ll be a frontier model in its parameter category.” Krutrim, Ola’s AI platform, also recently brought DeepSeek models to its cloud infrastructure, a move announced by founder Bhavish Aggarwal. “India can’t be left behind in AI. Krutrim has accelerated efforts to develop world-class AI. As a first step, our cloud now has DeepSeek models live, hosted on Indian servers. Pricing lowest in the world,” he had posted on X.
‘myShakti’ runs on an advanced server infrastructure comprising 16 nodes of H100 GPUs, which is a total of 128 H100s.
‘myShakti’ runs on an advanced server infrastructure comprising 16 nodes of H100 GPUs, which is a total of 128 H100s.
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