Nvidia has announced a major artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to support the country’s industrial sector.

In a statement, the companies said they would collaborate to develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the nation’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications to serve the world’s most populous nation.

As part of the partnership, Nvidia will provide access to its ‘most advanced’ GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service in the cloud. Nvidia describes GH200 as marking “a fundamental shift in computing architecture that provides exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth.”

For its part, Reliance will deploy Nvidia’s tech to create AI applications for Jio, its telecommunications business with 450 million customers. The company said that it would provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers and startups across India, and that the tech will provide demonstrable benefits to professions such as farming, healthcare and meteorology.

The infrastructure will be housed in data centres that will eventually expand to 2,000 MW, with execution and implementation to be managed by Jio.

Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, said: “We are delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India. India has scale, data and talent. With the most advanced AI computing infrastructure, Reliance can build its own large language models that power generative AI applications made in India, for the people of India.”

Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries added: “I am delighted with the partnership with NVIDIA and looking forward to a purposeful journey together.

“As India advances from a country of data proliferation to creating technology infrastructure for widespread and accelerated growth, computing and technology super centres like the one we envisage with Nvidia will provide the catalytic growth just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march,”

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