US chipmaker NVIDIA announced a partnership with Tata Group on Thursday to deliver computing infrastructure and platforms for developing AI-based solutions. The collaboration aims to bring state-of-the-art AI capabilities within reach to thousands of organisations, businesses and startups in India.

With this partnership, Tata Group companies are planning to catalyse AI-led transformation in the sectors it has a presence in. The group's flagship IT company, Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), plans to build and process generative AI applications.

Additionally, Tata Group's telecommunications arm Tata Communications will collaborate with the US chipmaker to develop an AI cloud in India aimed at "providing critical infrastructure that enables computing’s next lifecycle and to empower enterprises to transfer data across the AI cloud at high speeds."

N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said, “The advancements in AI have made focus on AI a central priority in governments, industries and society at large. Our partnership with NVIDIA will democratise access to AI infrastructure, accelerate build-out of AI solutions and enable upgradation of AI talent at scale.”

The duo will also work together to build an AI supercomputer powered by the next-generation NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip to achieve high performance. The superchip is a breakthrough accelerated CPU that can deliver up to 10X higher performance, as per company claims.

“The global generative AI race is on at full steam. Data centres worldwide are shifting to GPU computing to build energy-efficient infrastructure to support the exponential demand for generative AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

“We are delighted to partner with Tata as they expand their cloud infrastructure service with NVIDIA AI supercomputing to support the exponential demand of generative AI startups and processing of large language models,” he added.

Earlier on Friday, the chipmaker also informed that it is partnering with Reliance Industries to develop India's own large language model trained on local languages and tailored for generative Al applications.

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First Published:Sept 8, 2023 8:39 PM IST