UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — How are Indian firms training LLMs?
Q1. Which one of the following is the nodal implementing entity of the IndiaAI Mission approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024?
- A. NITI Aayog's National AI Portal
- B. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- C. 'IndiaAI' Independent Business Division under Digital India Corporation
- D. National Informatics Centre (NIC) AI Division
Q2. With reference to the foundational LLM work assigned to Sarvam AI under the IndiaAI Mission, consider the following statements comparing the April 2025 selection with the models unveiled at the IndiaAI Impact Summit (February 2026):
1. The April 2025 mandate envisaged an open-source model of around 120 billion parameters, whereas the February 2026 release comprised two distinct models of 30 billion and 105 billion parameters.
2. In the first phase of sovereign foundational-model selection, Sarvam AI was chosen along with three other Indian startups - Soket AI, Gnani AI and Gan AI.
3. Unlike the April 2025 plan, the models released in February 2026 abandoned the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture in favour of a dense transformer design.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- The April 2025 mandate envisaged an open-source model of around 120 billion parameters, whereas the February 2026 release comprised two distinct models of 30 billion and 105 billion parameters.
- In the first phase of sovereign foundational-model selection, Sarvam AI was chosen along with three other Indian startups - Soket AI, Gnani AI and Gan AI.
- Unlike the April 2025 plan, the models released in February 2026 abandoned the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture in favour of a dense transformer design.
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 2 and 3 only
- C. 1 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q3. In the first phase of the IndiaAI Mission's call for indigenous foundational-model development, the following Indian start-ups were selected:
1. Sarvam AI
2. Soket AI
3. Gnani AI
4. Krutrim SI Designs
Which of the above is/are NOT correctly identified as a first-phase selection under this call?
- Sarvam AI
- Soket AI
- Gnani AI
- Krutrim SI Designs
- A. 1 and 3
- B. 2 only
- C. 4 only
- D. 3 and 4
Q4. With reference to the IndiaAI Mission approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024, consider the following:
1. IndiaAI Compute Capacity
2. IndiaAI Datasets Platform
3. India Semiconductor Mission
4. Safe & Trusted AI
Which of the above is/are correctly identified as pillars of the IndiaAI Mission?
- IndiaAI Compute Capacity
- IndiaAI Datasets Platform
- India Semiconductor Mission
- Safe & Trusted AI
- A. 1 and 4 only
- B. 1, 2 and 4 only
- C. 2, 3 and 4 only
- D. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Q5. The IndiaAI Mission, as approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024, is structured around how many distinct pillars?
- A. Five
- B. Six
- C. Seven
- D. Nine