Tech Inc hopes to do a SAP with Nvidia this time
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's top tech services companies are riding the AI wave with chip giant Nvidia, betting on mutually beneficial partnerships like the ones they have with software giants SAP AG and Oracle Corp.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), Infosys Ltd, Wipro Ltd and Tech Mahindra Ltd last week announced or expanded on their partnerships with Nvidia, when its founder and chief executive Jensen Huang visited India. While TCS has launched a new business unit in collaboration with Nvidia for industry-specific AI solutions, Infosys unveiled two small language models trained on specific data sets for clients based on Nvidia’s platforms.
Wipro announced readymade AI-based templates for clients based on Nvidia’s AI platforms, while Tech Mahindra launched a centre of excellence powered by Nvidia platforms to help clients adopt enterprise AI models. Earlier this month, Accenture Plc, the world’s biggest software services provider, launched the Nvidia business group, under which 30,000 of its employees would be trained to help clients scale enterprise AI adoption based on Nvidia platforms.
“IT services companies are partnering with Nvidia because everyone wants their chips, which are basically their graphic processing units (GPUs). Fortune companies know that Nvidia’s chips work best when embedded in Nvidia’s own software and platforms, and they want to use this package as part of their AI workstreams," said an analyst at a domestic brokerage on condition of anonymity.
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