UPSC Prelims Practice Questions — India to Add 20,000 GPUs Beyond Existing 38,000 to Strengthen National AI Infrastructure; Announces MEITY Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw at Day Two of India AI Impact Summit 2026

Q1. Which one of the following is the designated nodal vehicle for implementing the IndiaAI Mission?

  • A. IndiaAI Independent Business Division under the Digital India Corporation
  • B. National Informatics Centre (NIC)
  • C. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
  • D. Software Technology Parks of India (STPI)

Q2. Under the IndiaAI Mission, the 'IndiaAI Datasets Platform' pillar is primarily intended to provide streamlined access to which one of the following?

  • A. Quality non-personal datasets for AI innovation by startups and researchers
  • B. Aadhaar-linked personal biometric records for model training
  • C. Classified defence and intelligence datasets for sovereign models
  • D. Foreign-language text corpora licensed from Western technology firms

Q3. The seven pillars of the IndiaAI Mission derive their sanction from the Mission's approval by which one of the following authorities?

  • A. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister
  • B. NITI Aayog Governing Council
  • C. The Cabinet Committee on Security
  • D. An executive notification of MeitY alone

Q4. In the context of the IndiaAI Compute pillar, the 'common compute facility' is best described as which one of the following?

  • A. A shared pool of GPU compute capacity offered to startups, researchers and government at subsidised rates through empanelled providers
  • B. A single government-owned supercomputer installed at a central data centre
  • C. A cloud reserved exclusively for defence and space AI applications
  • D. A quantum-computing grid replacing conventional GPU clusters

Q5. How many foundational pillars ('Sutras') anchored the India AI Impact Summit 2026?

  • A. Three
  • B. Four
  • C. Five
  • D. Seven

Q6. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 is distinguished as the first summit in the global AI summit series to be hosted by which category of nation?

  • A. A Global South nation
  • B. A G7 member nation
  • C. A permanent member of the UN Security Council
  • D. An OECD member nation

Q7. Within the Government of India, the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was organised under the aegis of which one of the following?

  • A. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
  • B. Ministry of External Affairs
  • C. Ministry of Science and Technology
  • D. NITI Aayog

Q8. Which one of the following correctly describes the 2023 Bletchley Park summit that began the global AI summit series?

  • A. It was the first international summit dedicated to AI safety and produced the Bletchley Declaration
  • B. It was the only summit convened solely to regulate military AI systems
  • C. It was attended exclusively by G7 member states
  • D. It was co-hosted by the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea