Reliance, Tata cos sign AI partnerships with Nvidia
Tata Communications Ltd will build an AI cloud for its clients. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, will also use Nvidia’s AI computing infrastructure to develop generative AI applications for its clients. Jio Platforms said the partnership will seek “to develop India’s own foundational large language model (LLM) trained on diverse languages." Tata Communications will build an AI cloud, which it will offer to its clients in an infrastructure-as-a-service model.
An AI cloud is a remote computing platform built specifically for the development and deployment of AI applications and use cases, which, in this case, will be powered by Nvidia’s GH200 AI chip. Jio’s AI infrastructure will also use the same chip. TCS will also build its own AI infrastructure in partnership with Nvidia’s on-cloud compute access, using which it will develop generative AI applications for its clients.
The move comes after the new TCS chief executive K. Krithivasan said during the company’s June quarter earnings call that the company is seeing increasing interest in generative AI—with 50 pilots and research projects, as well as over 100 real-life projects in the service provider’s pipeline. In a statement, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said India “has data, scale and talent", adding that through its partnership with Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms, Nvidia will “build state-of-the-art AI supercomputers in India." Jio Platforms will also use Nvidia’s DGX Cloud supercomputer-on-cloud service as part of its AI infrastructure.
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