Reliance, Nvidia to work together to build AI infrastructure in India

Reliance Industries and Nvidia have jointly announced they are continuing their collaboration to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure in India. Nvidia's founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jensen Huang said “We are announcing that Reliance and Nvidia are partnering to build AI infrastructure here in India,” while speaking to Reliance's Mukesh Ambani in a fireside session at the Nvidia AI Summit in Mumbai.

“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, and the last thing you need is AI infrastructure,” Huang told Ambani. “In order ultimately to create that into a flywheel is one of the greatest advantages that India has, which is a very large population of users. So, now you have the fundamental ingredients, AI, data, and AI infrastructure. And, you have a large popular of users that ultimately creates the AI flywheel,” he added.

Huang iterated the partnership Nvidia and Reliance announced last year, as part of which both companies will develop India's own foundation large language model trained on different languages common in the country and tailored for generative AI applications. In a joint statement, both companies said they will work together “to build AI infrastructure that is over an order of magnitude more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India today.”

“Counting on Nvidia to deliver good quality AI infrastructure just the way Jio did it in telecom,” Ambani said during the chat, while highlighting that the country needs a Jio-like moment for AI to make it "more affordable and more available." He added, "It is important that 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. We take the burden of putting that infrastructure together.”