NVIDIA and Reliance Industries announced a partnership to build AI supercomputers in India.
Presence in India
NVIDIA started operations in India in 2004.
It has four engineering development centres in the country in Gurugram, Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru with over 3,800 employees.
Through the partnership it 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 statement said.
To build “AI infra more powerful than the fastest supercomputer”
“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,” firms said.
Jio’s collaboration with NVIDIA also aligns with the local conglomerate’s strategy of serving as a large, comprehensive digital, cloud and networking platform for both consumers and business customers.
The AI infrastructure will be hosted in AI-ready computing data centers that will eventually expand to 2,000 MW.
Who does what?
Execution and implementation will be managed by Jio, which has extensive offerings and experience across mobile telephony 5G spectrum, fiber networks and more.
NVIDIA will provide access to the most advanced GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service in the cloud.
The computing architecture provides exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth.
Building base for Jio’s entry into AI
The NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure is the foundation of the new frontier into AI for Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm.
“To serve India’s vast potential in AI, Reliance will create AI applications and services for their 450 million Jio customers and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers and startups across India.”
AI and agriculture
AI can help rural farmers interact via cell phones in their local language to get weather information and crop prices
AI and medicine
AI can potentially offer expert diagnosis of medical symptoms and imaging scans at a massive scale in a scenario where doctors may not be immediately available.
AI and weather
AI can provide better predictions of cyclonic storms using decades of atmospheric data, helping those at risk to evacuate and find shelter.
“Made in India, for the people of India”
Huang said NVIDIA is “delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India.”
He said, “India has scale, data and talent.
With the most advanced AI computing infrastructure, Reliance can build its own large language models that power generative AI applications made in India, for the people of India.”
Vision of the partnership
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance spoke of the partnership.
He said, “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 catalyst just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march.”
His son and chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm Akash Ambani said, “Together, we will develop a state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure that is secure, sustainable and deeply relevant across India, accelerating the nation’s journey towards becoming an AI powerhouse.”
