Nvidia signs wave of Indian AI deals | TechCrunch

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a series of partnerships with Indian firms on Tuesday to deploy its AI chips and technology, deepening his firm’s push into a key growth market as demand for AI infrastructure surges.

The U.S. chip designer said at its AI Summit in Mumbai that Tech Mahindra will use its technology to develop Indus 2.0, a Hindi language AI model, while infrastructure providers Tata Communications and Yotta Data Services plan to add tens of thousands of Nvidia H100 chips by end-2024.

The move comes as India’s technology service providers rush to build AI capabilities amid growing client demand. Infosys, Wipro and other IT companies are using Nvidia’s software to develop custom AI applications for corporate clients.

Wipro has trained 225,000 employees on Nvidia’s AI platforms, while Tata Consultancy Services has trained 50,000 staff as AI associates, the companies said. More than 500,000 developers in India have joined the company’s developer program, the company said.

Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart and software provider Zoho will also use Nvidia’s technology to build Hindi language models.

The partnerships expand on Nvidia’s existing tieups with Reliance Industries, announced in 2023, to build large language models for Indian languages. That deal included plans for an AI cloud infrastructure and training for Reliance employees.

Among Indian startups using Nvidia’s technology, CoRover.ai said its chatbot for Indian Railways handles 150,000 daily queries in multiple languages. The company reported the system has facilitated over 10 billion customer interactions since launch.

Nvidia has trained more than 100,000 Indian AI developers as it competes with rivals AMD and Intel for share in India’s growing AI chip market.