In order to support India’s industrial sector, Nvidia today announced that it has partnered with Reliance Industries to develop India’s own foundational large language model trained on the nation’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications to serve the country.
“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,” Nvidia announced in a press release.
Also read: Nvidia is probably the most important company in tech right now: Here’s why
The chip-maker will provide access to the most advanced Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and Nvidia DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service in the cloud. GH200 marks a fundamental shift in computing architecture that provides exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth.
The Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure is the foundation of the new frontier into AI for Reliance Jio Infocomm–Reliance Industries’ telecom arm.
“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,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
To serve the country’s vast potential in AI, Reliance will create AI applications and services for its 450 million Jio customers and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers and startups across India.
Nvidia further mentioned that the AI infrastructure will be hosted in AI-ready computing data centers that will eventually expand to 2,000 MW. The execution and implementation will be overseen by Jio which has extensive offerings and experience across various fields such as mobile telephony, 5G spectrum, fiber networks, and more.
“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 of Reliance Industries.
“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,” said Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm. “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.”