The famous US chip company NVIDIA declared AI partnerships with Indian conglomerates like Reliance Industries and Tata Group to build cloud infrastructure, language models and generative applications.

This exciting deal is expected to help NVIDIA deepen its inroads into the emerging AI ecosystem of the South Asian nation as it faces specific barriers in a few chip exports to China and other countries with US restrictions.

Recently, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed India’s potential and possibilities in the AI sector. With the Reliance partnership, NVIDIA will offer the computing power necessary for developing a cloud AI infrastructure. At the same time, Reliance unit Jio will help maintain the infrastructure and supervise customer engagement.

NVIDIA said, “Reliance will create AI applications and services for their 450 million Jio (telecom) customers and provide energy-efficient AI infrastructure to scientists, developers and startups across India.”

This partnership opportunity will be utilised by India’s no.1 software services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services, to create and process generative AI apps and a supercomputer, the companies made clear in a statement.

TCS is expected to upskill its 600,000-strong workforce by harnessing the partnership. As per the statement, this partnership deal will catalyse the AI-integrated transformation across the Tata Group companies from manufacturing to consumer business. This also helps Reliance access the latest version of NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper Superchip. Its AI chips are enhanced to perform AI inference functions that power apps like ChatGPT.

Reliance opined that the new AI infrastructure would boost the range of India’s vital AI projects like drug discovery, chatbots and climate research.