NVIDIA-Reliance Partnership: US Tech Giant To Team Up With Mukesh Ambani’s Conglomerate To Boost AI in India, Allow Gujarat Data Center To Use Blackwell Chips

Mumbai, October 25: Major chip supplier NVIDIA has announced its partnership with Asia’s richest person, Mukesh Ambani, to build AI infrastructure and boost the adoption of the technology in India. The NVIDIA-Reliance Partnership was announced during the NVIDIA AI Summit 2024, held in Mumbai on Thursday. Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited would use the latest Blackwell processors from NVIDIA for its data centres.

According to a report by Fortune, two executives shared details about NVIDIA partnering with 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 to various companies developing artificial intelligence and is now eyeing collaborating with Ambani’s conglomerate to boost AI adoption in India. 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 player as 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 began 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… In the future, India will export AI.” The NVIDIA Blackwell chips would be used by the A 1 gigawatt Reliance data centre, which is under construction in Gujarat state and will become the first to deploy these “powerful” processors. 

The report said that NVIDIA’s customer, Amazon Web Services, had been working on a new product that could be launched next year and would likely require the company’s tech. Another tech giant, Dell Technologies Inc., reportedly said that the Blackwell servers would be generally available at the beginning of 2025. IGT Solutions Partners With AWS To Launch GenAI Platform ‘TechBud.AI’ To Streamline Recruitment, Procurement Processes.

Further,  Fortune said that NVIDIA would help India’s tech companies like Tech Mahindra Limited to build a Hindi LLM to help e-commerce company Flipkart with its conversational customer-service systems. Besides, the US-based chipmaker would collaborate with healthcare companies in India to enhance productivity.

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