Jensen Huang of Nvidia Corp. has formed a collaboration with Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, to develop artificial intelligence infrastructure and accelerate its adoption in the world’s most populated country.
On Thursday, the two CEOs shared the stage at Nvidia’s AI summit in Mumbai, where they announced that Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd.’s new big data center in India will utilize the US company’s latest Blackwell chips. Nvidia also formed relationships with Indian companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
India has emerged as a potentially important AI market, with the country of 1.4 billion people implementing the technology in industries such as agriculture, education, and manufacturing to improve efficiency. While it accounts only a modest portion of their sales, global IT giants ranging from Nvidia to Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. are counting on the quickly expanding economy as a growth market that can emerge as a viable alternative to China.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has partnered with Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in India. The two executives discussed the development of AI infrastructure in India, which is expected to boost efficiency in industries such as agriculture, education, and manufacturing. India has emerged as a potential major AI arena, with 1.4 billion people adopting the technology in sectors like agriculture, education, and manufacturing. Global tech companies like Nvidia, Microsoft Corp., and Meta Platforms Inc. are betting on the rapidly-growing economy as a growth market that can emerge as an alternative to China.
A 1 gigawatt Reliance data center under construction in Gujarat state will use Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, making it among the first to deploy the powerful new chips. Nvidia’s customers, such as Amazon Web Services, are also in the process of starting to use the product. Dell Technologies Inc. has announced that Blackwell-based servers will be generally available at the beginning of 2025.
Nvidia products have become a prized commodity among data center operators, which use the chips to develop AI software and services. The company acknowledged in August that Blackwell proved more difficult to produce than anticipated and is making changes to improve its manufacturing yield.
Nvidia will also help India’s Tech Mahindra Ltd. build a Hindi large language model, work with e-commerce company Flipkart on its conversational customer-service systems, and collaborate with India’s healthcare companies to help them improve productivity in patient care and research.
The US company has emerged at the forefront of a global AI boom, supplying chips used by tech leaders like Microsoft and Google. Huang has toured the globe this year, pushing countries and enterprises to adopt AI technologies he’s dubbed a “new industrial revolution.”
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Source: NDTV
