NVIDIA, which has been hogging the limelight in computing microchip business and recently reported record revenue of $13.51 billion for the second quarter of 2023 (up 101 percent year-on-year), will collaborate with Reliance Industries to develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the nation’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications.
On the sidelines of the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi, the two companies said they will work together to build AI infrastructure that is more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India today.
NVIDIA 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 major shift in computing architecture that provides exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth.
The NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure is the foundation for Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm, as it enters into the AI business. 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.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, who travelled to India recently for the G20 summit, said: “We are delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India. 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.”
Among some of the AI applications outlined by the two companies, it can help rural farmers interact via cell phones in their local language to get weather information and crop prices. It can also better predict cyclonic storms and weather patterns using decades of atmospheric data. It has the power to transform rural health systems, and can help provide, at scale, expert diagnosis of medical symptoms and imaging scans in places where doctors may not be immediately available.
The AI infrastructure will be hosted in computing data centres that will eventually expand to 2,000 MW. These will be managed by Jio, which has extensive experience across mobile telephony, 5G spectrum, fiber networks and more.
The collaboration with NVIDIA also aligns with Jio’s strategy of serving as a large, comprehensive digital, cloud and networking platform for both consumers and business customers.
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, added: “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.”
“At Jio, we are committed to fuelling India’s technology renaissance by democratising access to cutting-edge technologies, and our collaboration with NVIDIA is a significant step in this direction,” added 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.”
Founded in 1993, NVIDIA has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics and is now igniting the era of modern AI.
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