Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang speaks at Computex 2024 in Taipei on June 4, 2024.
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NVIDIA The U.S. chip company on Thursday announced a series of partnerships with major Indian companies and launched models in Hindi as it looks to expand its presence in one of the world’s largest technology markets.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke about the company’s technology and efforts in India at the Artificial Intelligence Summit in Mumbai. Mukesh Ambani, the richest man and chairman of Indian companies. Reliance Industries.
In a series of partnerships announced this time, Reliance and Nvidia have reached an agreement to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in India. Huang Jenxun said that Nvidia is working with Yotta and Tata Communications Also building computing infrastructure. By the end of this year, India’s computing power will be “20 times greater” than it was just over a year ago, Huang said, referring to the country’s computing power.
“India used to be a country that produced software. (India) exported software. In the future, India will export artificial intelligence,” Huang said.
Nvidia also released the Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi 4B – a small language model for Hindi, the most widely spoken of India’s languages. Companies running Nvidia hardware can deploy this language model, while Indian IT Consultants Tech Mahindra It is launching its own Hindi AI model, Project Indus 2.0, using Nvidia’s model.
Compared to large language models (such as OpenAI’s GPT-4), small language models are trained on more compact and specific datasets.
Nvidia also partners with other major Indian IT companies such as Infosys, Wipro and TCS Trains approximately 500,000 developers to use its software to create and implement artificial intelligence agents.
Nvidia’s expansion in India comes as the company looks to find new regions to boost its business as breakneck growth over the past year and a half begins to slow.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been seeking to attract large foreign technology companies, especially in the semiconductor industry, to increase investment in the country.
India aims to become a major player in the semiconductor industry and strives to become self-sufficient in manufacturing. Modi outlined various goals to boost the semiconductor industry and set an important goal to grow the value of the country’s electronics industry to $500 billion by 2030 from about $155 billion currently.
“India attaches great importance to the world’s computer industry and is the core of the IT industry,” Huang said.
Ambani’s presence at the Nvidia event also underscores the company’s ambition to become India’s leading artificial intelligence company. Reliance Jio, the telecommunications company owned by Ambani’s Reliance Industries, was an upstart less than a decade ago and is now India’s largest mobile provider.
“Jio’s goal is to build a large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure and democratize artificial intelligence by leveraging the data of nearly 1 billion Internet users in the next few years. With the investment and scale of this project, Jio aims to become the first A standard bearer for widespread adoption of artificial intelligence from consumers to businesses to governments.
Shah added that this “unlocks significant opportunities” for Nvidia and other companies.
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