This comes at a time when RIL chairman and managing director called out that India will be one of the biggest intelligence markets with the population scale and government push for AI in India.
Several technology and other firms including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, L&T Technology Services (LTTS) and Zoho Corporation, announced collaborations with Nvidia.
The announcements poured in as Huang held its AI summit 2024 in Mumbai and met up with Ambani, in presence of other industry players including Hindi cinema actor Akshay Kumar on Thursday.
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Announcing a five-year partnership expansion, largest Indian IT giant TCS launched Nvidia Business unit for industry-specific solutions and offerings to accelerate AI adoption for customers across manufacturing; banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI); telecom; retail; and automotive businesses. The Business unit will be housed under TCS’s AI.Cloud business unit helping to design and deliver curated AI adoption strategies.
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Bengaluru rivals Infosys and Wipro have also previously forged partnerships with Nvidia to offer enterprise AI solutions for its customers.Fifth largest IT major Tech Mahindra announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence (CoE) powered by NVIDIA platforms to drive advancements in sovereign large language model (LLM) frameworks, agentic AI, and physical AI.
While mid-sized technology services player LTTS unveiled its AI experience zone in Bengaluru built on Nvidia AI, to cater to clients in the mobility and technology segments.
Chennai-headquartered Zoho Corp also laid out plans to leverage Nvidia AI accelerated computing platform – which includes Nvidia NeMo, part of its AI enterprise software – to build and deploy its LLMs in its SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications. Zoho has already invested over $10 million in Nvidia’s AI technology and GPUs, and plans to double this in the coming year.
Tata Communications also unveiled its AI Cloud infrastructure in tie-up with NVIDIA, with the first phase to kick off by the end of this year. This will make Tata Communications one of the largest NVIDIA Hopper GPU cloud-based supercomputers in the country.
Addressing industry executives, Huang said India is very dear to the world’s computer industry and central to the information technology (IT) industry in the world.
“Our job is to help India build and deploy AI, and your job is to take these libraries and your incredible IT capability…This is an excellent opportunity for India to have a large population and a large population of computer engineers…this is such an extraordinary time,” Huang said.
The Nvidia head further stated that India was earlier focused on IT, the backoffice and delivering of software and that the next generation of IT is going to be about producing and delivering AI.
During a conversation with Huang, announcing RIL’s partnership with Nvidia, Ambani further said that, “Apart from the US and China, India has the best digital connectivity infrastructure…India is fast becoming innovation hub for the world.”
