Tata-Nvidia AI Collaboration To Be Announced Soon, Says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted at a forthcoming AI-related partnership with the Tata Group on Friday. While the finer details of the partnership are yet to be unveiled, Huang provided valuable insights into Tata's AI initiatives.

During a closed-door meeting with reporters in Bengaluru, Huang shed light on Tata's ambitious plans involving the construction of AI supercomputers. As part of this collaboration, he said Tata Communications is gearing up to establish a comprehensive infrastructure network designed to bolster India's burgeoning AI ecosystem with Nvidia’s help. This infrastructure will look to provide critical support to the numerous AI companies in India, alleviating their pressing need for reliable and accessible infrastructure. 

Huang's message underscored the significance of developing this infrastructure locally, eliminating the necessity for Indian engineers to seek such solutions abroad and promoting the growth of AI technology within the country.

“We would like to build infrastructure here to support the local economy, to support all of the generative AI companies,” said Huang while talking about collaborating with Tata Communications.

As an integral component of the broader collaboration with Tata Group, Nvidia will play a key role in upskilling Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) workforce, ensuring they harness AI to its fullest potential. This exercise may extend to all of TCS' over 6 lakh employees globally.

Furthermore, the partnership will also extend to Tata Motors. "In the future, Tata Motors will undergo complete digitalisation, encompassing every stage from initial design and styling to engineering, simulation, testing, and the integration of autonomous vehicle capabilities," the Nvidia CEO said.

Huang added that Nvidia is already working with Tata subsidiary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

Earlier on Friday, Nvidia announced an AI-related partnership with Reliance to develop India’s own foundational large language model trained on the nation’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications. Together, they plan to build AI infrastructure, with Nvidia providing access to its cutting-edge GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud. As part of this partnership, Reliance will purchase the technology from Nvidia to develop the infrastructure.

Specifics regarding the financial and duration aspects of this agreement remain undisclosed.

Also Read: Reliance, Nvidia To Jointly Develop AI Infra In India