NEW DELHI: US know-how firm NVIDIA and billionaire Mukesh Ambani‘s Reliance Industries on Friday introduced a partnership to construct AI supercomputers in India. “The companies will work together to build AI infrastructure that is over an order of magnitude more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India today,” the corporations stated in a press release.
Days earlier than the announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
Starting operations in India in 2004, NVIDIA has 4 engineering growth centres within the nation – in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru -with over 3,800 staff.
Its collaboration with Reliance will “develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the nation’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications to serve the world’s most populous nation,” the assertion stated.
NVIDIA will present entry to probably the most superior GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service within the cloud. GH200 marks a basic shift in computing structure that gives distinctive efficiency and large reminiscence bandwidth.
“The NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure is the foundation of the new frontier into AI for Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm. The global AI revolution is transforming industries and daily life.
“To serve India’s huge potential in AI, Reliance will create AI purposes and providers for his or her 450 million Jio prospects and supply energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, builders and startups throughout India,” the statement said.
AI can help rural farmers interact via cell phones in their local language to get weather information and crop prices. It can help provide, at massive scale, expert diagnosis of medical symptoms and imaging scans where doctors may not be immediately available.
AI can better predict cyclonic storms using decades of atmospheric data, enabling those at risk to evacuate and find shelter.
“The AI infrastructure will likely be hosted in AI-ready computing information facilities that can ultimately broaden to 2,000 MW. Execution and implementation will likely be managed by Jio, which has in depth choices and expertise throughout cell telephony, 5G spectrum, fiber networks and extra,” it said.
Huang said NVIDIA is “delighted to accomplice with Reliance to construct state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India.”
“India has scale, information and expertise. With probably the most superior AI computing infrastructure, Reliance can construct its personal giant language fashions that energy generative AI purposes made in India, for the individuals of India,” he said.
Jio has broad expertise, infrastructure and engineering skill to roll out and manage the new AI computing infrastructure. The collaboration with NVIDIA also aligns with its strategy of serving as a large, comprehensive digital, cloud and networking platform for both consumers and business customers.
“As India advances from a rustic of knowledge proliferation to creating know-how infrastructure for widespread and accelerated development, computing and know-how tremendous centres just like the one we envisage with NVIDIA will present the catalytic development similar to Jio did to our nation’s digital march,” said Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries.
His son and chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, Akash Ambani said Jio is committed to fuelling India’s technology renaissance by democratizing access to cutting-edge technologies, and the collaboration with NVIDIA is a significant step in this direction.
“Together, we’ll develop a state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure that’s safe, sustainable and deeply related throughout India, accelerating the nation’s journey in the direction of turning into an AI powerhouse,” he added.