Nvidia has announced a partnership with Reliance Industries as the firm seeks to meet growing demand for AI in India.

The two companies said they will work together to develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the nation’s diverse set of languages, which will be tailored for generative AI (genAI) applications.

Reliance Industries is an Indian multinational conglomerate with businesses across retail, energy, digital services, media, and petrochemicals.

The Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure will focus on boosting AI growth for Reliance Jio Infocomm, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm.

The collaboration includes plans to deploy AI applications and services for 450 million Jio customers, and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure for a range of communities across India.

“We are delighted to partner with Reliance to build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India,” said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia.

He added that with the most advanced AI computing infrastructure, Reliance can build its own large language models that power genAI applications made in India, for the people of India.

Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries added that computing and technology super centres like the one envisaged with Nvidia aim to provide “the catalytic growth as Jio did to India’s digital march”.

“Together, we will develop a state-of-the-art AI cloud infrastructure that is secure, sustainable and deeply relevant across India, accelerating the nation’s journey towards becoming an AI powerhouse,” he continued.

Earlier this week, Nvidia’s chief executive Huang announced the  launch of Denmark’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer.

The computer, named Gefion, aims to facilitate breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, biotechnology and other areas.

It is operated by the Danish Center of Innovaton (DCAI), an organisation established with funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark.

“Gefion is going to be a factory of intelligence,” said Huang at the time. “This is a new industry that never existed before.”

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