Government invites startups to share anonymous data for AI Kosh

The government on Tuesday came out with a proposal to invite private firms including startups to contribute anonymous, non-personal datasets of their users to the AI Kosh platform.

The move aims at accelerating the development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in India along with enabling access to enough data for training large language models (LLMs), a senior government official told ET.

As per the plan, firms such as Google, Uber and PhonePe can contribute anonymised datasets of usage patterns on their websites without revealing the…