Nvidia, the US chip giant that has been riding the AI boom, on Friday struck partnership deals with Reliance Industries Ltd and the Tatas to develop cloud infrastructure and an AI supercomputer.

Reliance said in a statement that its arm Jio Platforms has entered into a collaboration with Nvidia to build a cloud-based AI infrastructure platform.

Nvidia chips will power the platform, while Jio will manage and market the set-up.

Reliance is targeting to bring researchers, developers, start-ups scientists, AI practitioners to the platform.

The new infrastructure will greatly speed up a wide range of key initiatives in AI chatbots, drug discovery and climate research.

“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,” Mukesh Ambani, chairman and MD, Reliance Industries, said.

Nvidia said the collaboration with Reliance will see the companies working together to build AI infrastructure that is over an order of magnitude more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India.

“Reliance will create AI applications and services for their 450 million Jio (telecom) customers and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers and start-ups across India,” Nvidia said.

The Nvidia partnership will be used by India’s No.1 software services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services to build and process generative AI apps and a supercomputer, the companies said in a statement. TCS will also upskill its 600,000-strong workforce by leveraging the partnership.

Nvidia will use its Grace Hopper Superchip to power the projects with the Tatas and Reliance.

“Data centers worldwide are shifting to GPU computing to build energy-efficient infrastructure to support the exponential demand for generative AI,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said.

“We are delighted to partner with Tata as they expand their cloud infrastructure service with Nvidia AI supercomputing to support the exponential demand of generative AI start-ups and processing of large language models.’’

With inputs from Reuters