India's second largest conglomerate, Reliance Group, will use NVIDIA's Blackwell chip in its newly built data center. Other tech companies like Tech Mahindra will also be utilizing NVIDIA's technology. NVIDIA has also launched a lightweight AI large model specifically for the Indian market, allowing local enterprises to develop their own AI models
NVIDIA is advancing full speed into the Indian market, not only collaborating with several Indian tech giants but also launching a lightweight AI model tailored for the local market.
On October 24th local time, NVIDIA's founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced at an AI summit in India that the company has partnered with Reliance Industries, the second largest conglomerate in India owned by Asia's richest man, to jointly establish AI infrastructure in India.
Huang stated that Reliance Industries' newly built large data center in India will utilize NVIDIA's upcoming next-generation flagship GPU chip, Blackwell. According to Ambani, the data center will be located in Jamnagar, the fifth largest city in the state of Gujarat, with a capacity of 1 gigawatt.
"In India, NVIDIA is AI," Huang declared at the summit. "We are introducing a new small language model in India called Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, with 4 billion parameters, for enterprises to develop their own AI models."
Huang also mentioned that the Indian software company Tech Mahindra will adopt NVIDIA's chips and software to develop an Indian language AI model named "Indus2.0."
Furthermore, NVIDIA will collaborate with the e-commerce company Flipkart to develop its conversational customer service system, and software vendor Zoho will also use NVIDIA's technology in its projects to create an Indian language AI model.
Previously, NVIDIA had established partnerships with the renowned Indian IT companies Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services.
Huang expressed optimism about the Indian AI market multiple times during the event:
India used to be a software exporting country, and in the future, it will become an AI exporting country.
Huang predicted that by the end of 2024, India's computing power will increase nearly 20 times, stating that "NVIDIA's ecosystem in India is very rich."
NVIDIA began its presence in Bangalore, southern India, twenty years ago and has since set up development centers in three other cities, employing around 4,000 engineers.
In September last year, NVIDIA reached preliminary agreements with Reliance, Tata Group, and other companies to establish AI data centers and committed to training AI models in local Indian languages. In August this year, Ambani mentioned the term artificial intelligence at least 80 times during Reliance Industries' shareholders' meeting, where he announced the development of an AI tool and application named JioBrain.
AI in India is still in its early stages, and the Indian government has allocated $1.2 billion under the "India AI Plan" for building data centers.
During the event, Huang reiterated that the AI chip GB200 based on the Blackwell architecture will be mass-produced in the fourth quarter. He further stated:
In the long run, I hope each of us will have our own AI assistant.
Addressing concerns about AI taking over human jobs, Huang firmly stated that AI will not completely replace humans but will fundamentally change the way work operates