In a Great collaboration, Reliance Industries, led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, and US technology giant NVIDIA have joined forces to establish advanced AI supercomputing infrastructure in India. This strategic partnership aims to develop a computing environment more powerful than any supercomputer currently operating in the country, significantly enhancing India’s AI capabilities.
The announcement follows a meeting between NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underscoring the significance of this venture.
NVIDIA, which initiated operations in India in 2004 and has four engineering development centers across the country, is set to contribute its cutting-edge technology, including the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing cloud service. The GH200 superchip represents a revolutionary leap in computing architecture, offering exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth.
One of the primary objectives of this collaboration is to develop a large language model tailored to India’s diverse languages and designed for generative AI applications. This AI infrastructure will serve as the cornerstone for Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Industries’ telecommunications arm, which aims to harness the power of AI to create applications and services for its 450 million Jio customers.
The applications of AI in India are far-reaching, from enabling rural farmers to access weather information and crop prices in their local languages to providing expert medical diagnoses through scalable AI solutions. Additionally, AI can play a pivotal role in predicting and managing cyclonic storms using decades of atmospheric data.
This AI infrastructure will be hosted in AI-ready computing data centers that will eventually expand to a capacity of 2,000 MW. Jio will manage the execution and implementation, drawing on its extensive experience in mobile telephony, SG spectrum, fiber networks, and more.
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “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.”
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, emphasized the transformative potential of this venture, saying, “As India advances from a country of data proliferation to creating technology infrastructure for widespread and accelerated growth, computing and technology super centers like the one we envisage with NVIDIA will provide the catalytic growth just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march.”
Akash Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, added, “Together, we will develop a state-of-the-art AI infrastructure that is secure, sustainable, and deeply relevant across India, accelerating the nation’s journey towards becoming an AI powerhouse.”
This collaboration represents a significant milestone in India’s technological landscape, as it endeavors to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence to drive innovation, growth, and inclusivity across various sectors of the economy.