NVIDIA is advancing into the Indian market at full speed, not only reaching cooperation with several Indian tech giants but also launching a lightweight AI large model tailored for the local market. On October 24th local time, NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, announced at the India AI Summit that the company has established a partnership with Reliance Group, owned by Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, India's second-largest conglomerate, to jointly build AI infrastructure in India.
Jensen Huang stated that the new large-scale data center being built by Reliance Group in India will utilize NVIDIA's upcoming flagship GPU chip, Blackwell. According to Ambani, the data center will be located in Jamnagar, the fifth-largest city in Gujarat, with a capacity of 1 gigawatt.
"In India, NVIDIA is India's AI," Huang said at the summit, "We are launching a new small language model in India called Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B, with 4 billion parameters, for enterprises to develop their own AI models."
As Huang introduced, Indian software company Tech Mahindra will also adopt NVIDIA's chips and software to develop a Hindi AI model named "Indus2.0." In addition, NVIDIA will collaborate with e-commerce company Flipkart to develop its conversational customer service system, and software supplier Zoho will also use NVIDIA's technology in its projects to create a Hindi AI model.
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Prior to this, NVIDIA had already established partnerships with renowned Indian IT companies Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services.
Huang repeatedly expressed optimism for the Indian AI market at the meeting:
India used to be a software exporter, and in the future, India will become an AI exporter.
Huang predicted that by the end of 2024, India's computing power will increase nearly 20 times, "NVIDIA's ecosystem in India is very rich."NVIDIA began its strategic layout in Bangalore, southern India, as early as two decades ago, and has also established development centers in three other cities, employing a total of about 4000 engineers.
In September last year, NVIDIA reached preliminary agreements with companies such as Reliance and Tata Group to establish artificial intelligence data centers and committed to training AI models in local Indian languages. In August this year, Ambani mentioned the term "artificial intelligence" at least 80 times during the Reliance Industries shareholders' meeting, where he announced that the company is developing an artificial intelligence tool and application called JioBrain.
Artificial intelligence in India is still in its early stages, and the Indian government has allocated $1.2 billion under the "India AI Plan" for the construction of data centers.
At the meeting, Huang Renxun once again emphasized that the company's AI chip GB200, based on the Blackwell architecture, will be shipped in large quantities in the fourth quarter. Huang Renxun further stated:
In the long run, I hope each of us has our own artificial intelligence assistant.
When discussing concerns about AI taking human jobs, Huang Renxun insisted that artificial intelligence will not completely replace humans, but it will fundamentally change the way work operates.
Artificial intelligence will absolutely not take away human jobs, but those who use artificial intelligence to do their jobs better will have more employment opportunities.
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