India-based Reliance supercomputer to be powered by NVIDIA's new Blackwell AI GPUs

NVIDIA will be supplying its new Blackwell AI GPUs to Indian companies including Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, to build a new AI supercomputer in India.

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Reliance is building a new 1 GWh (one-gigawatt hour) data center in the western state of Gujarat, India, announced at an AI summit recently held in the business capital of Mumbai. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Mukesh Ambani announced the news, with Jensen saying: "In the future, India is going to be the country that will export AI. You have the fundamental ingredients - AI, data and AI infrastructure, and you have a large population of users".

Jensen added: "India is already world-class in designing chips, India already develops AI. Instead of being an outsourcer and a back office, India will become an exporter of AI".

Reuters reports that from large companies to startups, businesses in India have been working on building new AI models based on its array of languages, in order to grow consumer appeal and "drive activities" like customer service AI assistants, and content translation. India is home to over 1.4 billion people and low-cost internet access, so South Asian nations are a big key market growth sector for US tech giants like NVIDIA.

NVIDIA said that Indian IT services firm Tech Mahindra is the first to use its new Hindi-language AI model to develop a custom AI model called Indus 2.0, which focuses on the language largely spoken nationwide, and its dozens of dialects. NVIDIA is also partnering with IT giants like Infosys, TCS, and Wipro to "train about half a million developers to design and deploy AI agents using its software".

You can read the entire report from Reuters here.