Reliance Partners With Nvidia – On Friday, US chipmaker Nvidia and telecom-to-retail behemoth Reliance launched an AI collaboration to develop language models, generative apps, and a cloud infrastructure platform for AI development in the South Asian nation.
According to the firms, Nvidia will offer the computing capacity required for the efforts, while Reliance affiliate Jio will manage and maintain the AI infrastructure as well as oversee customer involvement.
“Reliance will create AI applications and services for their 450 million Jio (telecom) customers and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers, and startups across India,” Nvidia explained.
Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire chairman of Reliance Industries, has previously emphasized the importance of “digital infrastructure in India that can handle AI’s immense computational demands”.
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The collaboration will provide Reliance with access to the most recent version of Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchip, its AI chips geared to execute AI inference functions that power apps like ChatGPT.
According to Reliance, the new AI infrastructure would accelerate a number of critical AI projects in India, including chatbots, drug discovery, and climate research.
According to Neil Shah, a partner at Counterpoint Research, the AI approach is important for Jio to “make sense” of the data it has collected from millions of consumers and become a digital business that provides services other than telecom.
“The AI infra will enable it to provide accurate recommendations and cross-sell products and services across its giant network of clients in retail, telecom, and financial space,” he said.
According to Reuters, the oil-to-retail behemoth Reliance is reportedly mulling a venture into chip manufacturing in India.
Separately, India’s Tata Group is expected to announce an AI alliance with Nvidia later on Friday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the subject.
