NVIDIA-Reliance Partnership: US Tech Giant To Team Up With Mukesh Ambaniās Conglomerate To Boost AI in India, Allow Gujarat Data Center To Use Blackwell Chips
NVIDIA, a US-based chipmaker announced its partnership with Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited to boost adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). The Blackwell chips will be used by the Gujarat' Reliance data centre after its construction is completed.
Mumbai, October 25:Ā Major chip supplier NVIDIA has announced its partnership with Asia's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, to build AI infrastructure andĀ boost the adoption of the technologyĀ in India. The NVIDIA-RelianceĀ Partnership was announced during the NVIDIA AI Summit 2024, held in Mumbai on Thursday. Mukesh Ambani's RelianceĀ Industries Limited would use the latest Blackwell processors from NVIDIA for its data centres.
According to aĀ reportĀ byĀ Fortune, two executivesĀ shared details aboutĀ NVIDIA partnering withĀ Reliance Industries Ltd. in India along with other tech giants like Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). NVIDIA has been the primary supplier of chipsets toĀ various companies developing artificial intelligence and is now eyeing collaborating with Ambani's conglomerate to boost AI adoption in India.Ā OpenAI Orion Releasing in December 2024, Next AI Model From Sam Altman-Run Company To Be 100 Times More Powerful Than GPT-4: Report.
The report said that India emerged as a major playerĀ asĀ AI had been adopted by the country's industries in areas like education, agriculture, and manufacturing to boost efficiency. As a result, many tech giants like NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta beganĀ to understand India as a rapidly growing economy and an alternative to China.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang praised India's development and said, "India produced and exported software...Ā In the future, India will export AI." The NVIDIA Blackwell chips wouldĀ be used by theĀ A 1 gigawatt Reliance data centre, which is under construction in Gujarat state and will become the first to deploy these "powerful" processors.Ā
The report said that NVIDIA's customer, Amazon Web Services, had been working on a new product that could be launched next year and wouldĀ likelyĀ require theĀ company's tech.Ā Another tech giant, Dell Technologies Inc., reportedly said that the Blackwell servers would beĀ generally available at the beginning of 2025.Ā IGT Solutions Partners With AWS To Launch GenAI Platform āTechBud.AIā To Streamline Recruitment, Procurement Processes.
Further,Ā Ā FortuneĀ said that NVIDIA would help India's tech companies like Tech Mahindra Limited to build a Hindi LLM to helpĀ e-commerce company Flipkart with its conversational customer-service systems. Besides, theĀ US-based chipmakerĀ would collaborate with healthcare companies in India to enhance productivity.
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