NVIDIA announces partnership with Tata and Reliance to bolster India's AI infra

The development is expected to give a major push in building India’s AI infrastructure plus in reskilling and upskilling a chunk of the country’s tech workforce.

“As India advances from a country of data proliferation to creating technology infrastructure for widespread and accelerated growth, computing and technology super centres like the one we envisage with NVIDIA will provide the catalytic growth just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march,” said Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited.

In partnership with Reliance, NVIDIA said it would develop India’s own foundation large language model (LLM) trained on diverse languages, which are made for India.

He he company along with NVIDIA  will develop an advanced AI cloud infrastructure that is “secure, sustainable, and are deeply relevant to India's unique opportunities.”

Jio Platforms, in a statement, that the new AI cloud infrastructure will “enable researchers, developers, startups, scientists, AI practitioners and others across India to access accelerated computing and high-speed, secure cloud networking to run workloads safely and with extreme energy efficiency”.

NVIDIA said it would be building India’s own foundation large language model (LLM) trained on diverse languages, which are built for India.

With this partnership, Jio will get end-to-end AI supercomputer technologies including CPU, GPU, networking, and AI operating systems and frameworks for developing the AI models, and Jio will manage and maintain the AI cloud infrastructure.

“This state-of-the-art platform will be a catalyst in accelerating AI-driven innovations across sectors, from healthcare and education to enterprise solutions. Our vision is to make AI accessible to researchers, start-ups, and enterprises across the nation, thereby accelerating India's journey towards becoming an AI powerhouse,” Akash Ambani said.

“We are delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “India has scale, data and talent. With the most advanced AI computing infrastructure, Reliance can build itsown large language models that power generative AI applications made in India, for the people of India,” he added.

The Tata Group is engaging in NVIDIA on three fronts. The chipmaker will build and process generative AI applications and upskill over six lakh employees of TCS, India’s biggest IT Services company, in AI.

The company will help Tata Motors deploy AI across design, styling, engineering, simulation testing and autonomous vehicle capabilities.

Further, it will help Tata Communications build AI infra structure.

"Our partnership with NVIDIA will democratize access to AI infrastructure, accelerate build-out of AI solutions and enable upgradation of AI talent at scale. Tata Group’s presence across sectors coupled with NVIDIA’s deep capabilities offers numerous opportunities for collaboration to advance India’s AI ambition," he said.

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekharan said that the advance development in AI have made it the top focus in governments, industries, and societies at large.

“In the case of Reliance, they're going to use it to create generative AI services for their 450 million customers. In the case of Tata, Tata Communications is going to create infrastructure,” he said.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang supercomputers this infrastructure that Tata Communications will be building is to support AI companies in India right now that are looking for infrastructure, the reported Moneycontrol.

“They're all clamouring for supply, access to infrastructure. They're flying all over the world looking for infrastructure around the world, they might have to export their engineers to go work in California, so they can have infrastructure there. There's no reason to do that. Build the infrastructure here, the engineers don't have to leave,” he said, the report added.