The tie-up will boost India’s artificial intelligence and semiconductor chip ambitions. (Representative image/Reuters)
Reliance, NVIDIA will develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the country’s diverse languages and tailored for generative Al applications
Global chip design major NVIDIA and local oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries on Friday, September 8, announced a partnership to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India. Through the tie-up, the companies will develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the country’s diverse languages and tailored for generative Al applications.
The tie-up will boost India’s artificial intelligence and semiconductor chip ambitions.
NVIDIA will provide access to its most advanced chips and Al supercomputing service in the cloud, while the execution and implementation will be managed by Reliance Jio.
The Al infrastructure will be hosted in Al-ready computing data centres that will eventually expand to 2,000 MW.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said, “We are delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art Al supercomputers in India… India has scale, data and talent. With the most advanced Al computing infrastructure, Reliance can build its own large language models that power generative Al applications made in India, for the people of India.”
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, 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 catalytic growth just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march… I am delighted with the partnership with NVIDIA and looking forward to a purposeful journey together.”
Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, said, “At Jio, we are committed to fueling India’s technology renaissance by democratizing access to cutting-edge technologies, and our collaboration with NVIDIA is a significant step in this direction… Together, we will develop a state-of-the-art Al cloud infrastructure that is secure, sustainable and deeply relevant across India, accelerating the nation’s journey towards becoming an Al powerhouse.”
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