UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — Nvidia, OpenAI announce partnerships with Indian firms, academic institutes
Q1. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, which one of the following Indian institutions was identified as the lead partner with OpenAI for piloting an 'AI in Medical Education Hub'?
- A. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
- B. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
- C. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry
- D. Christian Medical College, Vellore
Q2. As announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, how many liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs is Yotta Data Services planning to deploy in its India supercluster, with an investment commitment exceeding USD 2 billion?
- A. 10,372 GPUs
- B. 20,736 GPUs
- C. 38,000 GPUs
- D. 80,000 GPUs
Q3. Consider the following statements comparing the original IndiaAI Mission with the status of India's AI compute capacity as reported at the India AI Impact Summit 2026:
1. The IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024 with an outlay of ₹10,372 crore.
2. The original public-compute target under the IndiaAI Mission was 10,000 GPUs for common compute access.
3. By the time of the Summit, the IndiaAI Compute Portal was providing access to more than 38,000 GPUs at subsidised rates.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- The IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024 with an outlay of ₹10,372 crore.
- The original public-compute target under the IndiaAI Mission was 10,000 GPUs for common compute access.
- By the time of the Summit, the IndiaAI Compute Portal was providing access to more than 38,000 GPUs at subsidised rates.
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 2 only
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Q4. With reference to Nvidia's industry partnerships announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, consider the following:
1. Yotta Data Services — multi-year DGX Cloud Blackwell Ultra supercluster
2. Larsen & Toubro — sovereign AI factory with clusters in Chennai and Mumbai
3. Infosys — AI cloud infrastructure partner for the IndiaAI Mission
4. National Payments Corporation of India — sovereign AI layer for payments using Nemotron models
Which of the above is/are correctly identified?
- Yotta Data Services — multi-year DGX Cloud Blackwell Ultra supercluster
- Larsen & Toubro — sovereign AI factory with clusters in Chennai and Mumbai
- Infosys — AI cloud infrastructure partner for the IndiaAI Mission
- National Payments Corporation of India — sovereign AI layer for payments using Nemotron models
- A. 1 and 2 only
- B. 1, 2 and 4 only
- C. 2, 3 and 4 only
- D. 1, 2, 3 and 4