Nvidia has embarked on a series of partnerships with Indian companies to deploy its AI chips and technology, strengthening its reach into key growth markets.
Jensen Huang, CEO of the US chip design company, said the company has partnered with Reliance, India’s most valuable company, to build infrastructure for AI applications in India. He also said Tech Mahindra will use NVIDIA chips and software to develop the Hindi AI model ‘Indus 2.0’. Infrastructure providers Tata Communications and Yotta Data Services also plan to purchase and use tens of thousands of Nvidia H100 chips by the end of the year.
Huang was speaking at the company’s ongoing AI Summit event in Mumbai. The event comes at a time when technology service providers in India are rushing to build out AI capabilities. Infosys, Wipro and other IT companies have used Nvidia’s software to develop custom AI applications for enterprise customers.
“India used to be a country that exported software. In the future, India will be a country that exports AI,” Huang said.
Wipro said it has trained 225,000 employees on Nvidia’s AI platform, while Tata Consultancy Services said it has trained 50,000 staff as AI associates. More than 500,000 developers in India are participating in Nvidia’s developer program, the company said.
Indian e-commerce company Flipkart and software provider Zoho will also use Nvidia’s technology to build large-scale language models for Hindi.
This partnership expands on the existing partnership between Nvidia and Reliance Industries to build large-scale language models for Indian languages. The contract also included plans for AI cloud infrastructure and training for employees.
Several Indian startups are also using Nvidia’s technology. CoRover.ai claims that its chatbot for Indian Railways handles 150,000 queries in multiple languages every day and has facilitated over 10 billion customer interactions since its launch.
Nvidia has trained more than 100,000 Indian AI developers as it competes with rivals AMD and Intel for India’s growing AI chip market.
