From Bloomberg, October 24:
Nvidia’s Huang Teams With Asia’s Richest Man on Blackwell AI Hub
- AI pioneer joins Ambani’s Reliance to bet on India growth
- Reliance’s major data center to run new Nvidia Blackwell chips
Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang struck a partnership with Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure and spur the technology’s adoption in the world’s most populous country.
The two executives shared the stage at Nvidia’s AI summit in Mumbai on Thursday and said a new major data center by Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. in India is set to use the latest Blackwell chips from the US company. Nvidia also forged partnerships with Indian conglomerates including Infosys Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
India has emerged as a potentially major AI arena, with the country of 1.4 billion adopting the technology in industries including agriculture, education and manufacturing to boost efficiency. While still a small part of their revenue, global tech companies from Nvidia to Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. are betting on the rapidly-growing economy as a growth market that can emerge as an alternative to China.
“India produced and exported software,” Huang said. “In the future, India will export AI.”
A 1 gigawatt Reliance data center under construction in Gujarat state will use Nvidia’s Blackwell, making it among the first to deploy the powerful new chips. Nvidia’s customers such as Amazon Web Services are also in the process of starting to use the product, with AWS expecting them to be online next year. Dell Technologies Inc. also has said that Blackwell-based servers will be generally available at the beginning of 2025....
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As noted some months ago:
March 5, 2024
Here's Nvidia's "Sovereign AI" Pitch (NVDA)
.... This is terrible. I now have Jensen Huang speaking in Dr. Martin Luther King's cadences as he repurposes the penultimate paragraph of "I have a Dream":
Let AI ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.I may have to go lie down.
Let AI ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let AI ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let AI ring.
...Every, town, every village, every hamlet, every wide spot in the road, should have their own (NVDA-powered) supercomputer.
Also the world's most populous nation.
