Artificial intelligence (AI) and graphics processing unit (GPU) major Nvidia on Thursday announced a partnership with Reliance to build AI computing infrastructure in India.

At the Nvidia AI Summit 2024 in Mumbai, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani and Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO, Nvidia had a fireside chat to discuss India’s transformative potential in AI.

“In order to lead in artificial intelligence, you need to have AI model technology that India has. You need to have data, massive quantities of data. The last thing you need is AI infrastructure. And we’re announcing that Reliance and Nvidia are partnering to build AI infrastructure here in India,” Huang said.

“India will start with what is the absolute best that you have,” Ambani said.

“We design and build infrastructure so that to use AI, our customers don’t have to change a phone, don’t have to change their computers, but they can still get good quality AI. And we take the burden of putting that infrastructure together, and I think that is what we are counting on you and us to do,” he said.

At the Reliance AGM in August, Ambani had said the company is planning to establish gigawatt-scale AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar.

Huang told reporters the partnership also includes creating applications that Reliance could offer to consumers in India. “We will also have an innovation centre as part of the tie-up,” he said. Without giving details on the partnership, Huang said the partnership entails a “fairly large scale” deployment of infrastructure.

“India is already world class in designing chips, Nvidia’s are designed here in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune. A third of Nvidia is Indian, maybe more,” Huang said.

More pacts

TCS on Thursday expanded its partnership with Nvidia to launch industry-specific solutions and offerings across manufacturing, BFSI, telecom, retail and automotive businesses.

The solutions and offerings will help customers in these industries adopt AI faster and at scale. They will be delivered through TCS’ new business unit focused on Nvidia, under its AI.Cloud business unit.

Tata Communications also announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia. “At the end of this year, Tata Communications will begin the first phase of its large-scale deployment of Hopper GPUs, establishing itself as one of the largest NVIDIA Hopper GPU cloud-based supercomputers in India,” the company said. The second phase will use Blackwell GPUs.

Tech Mahindra announced a Center of Excellence (CoE) powered by Nvidia platforms to drive advancements in sovereign large language model (LLM) frameworks, agentic AI and physical AI.

Infosys and Wipro also announced collaborations: Infosys launched its small language models — Topaz BankingSLM and Topaz ITOpsSLM — using the Nvidia AI stack.

Wipro said it will leverage the full Nvidia AI stack to help its clients across industries
including healthcare, communications and financial services.

Ola Electric announced the launch of Ola Digital Twin platform, which is developed on the Nvidia Omniverse.

The platform integrates Ola’s own Krutrim AI and Nvidia technologies along with other advanced simulation tools and IoT platforms.