India Accelerates AI Revolution with NVIDIA Partnerships and $1 Billion Investment

New Delhi is currently the epicenter of AI innovation, hosting the AI Impact Summit, a global gathering of heads of state and industry leaders focused on charting the future of artificial intelligence. The summit highlights India’s ambitious plans to become a major player in the AI landscape, backed by a government investment exceeding $1 billion through the IndiaAI Mission.

IndiaAI Mission: A Comprehensive Approach

The IndiaAI Mission aims to bolster India’s compute capacity and foster the development of sovereign AI datasets, frontier models, and applications. Beyond infrastructure, the mission prioritizes AI education, startup innovation, and the establishment of frameworks for trustworthy AI. The India AI Impact Summit 2026 serves as the flagship event for this initiative.

NVIDIA Drives AI Infrastructure Expansion

A key component of India’s AI strategy is a significant investment in computing infrastructure. The nation is building out its AI cloud offerings with systems incorporating tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs. NVIDIA is collaborating with next-generation cloud providers – Yotta, L&T, and E2E Networks – to deliver advanced AI factories and meet the growing demand for AI compute.

Yotta’s Shakti Cloud

Yotta Data Services is constructing a large-scale sovereign AI infrastructure in India, branded as Shakti Cloud. This infrastructure will be powered by over 20,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, offering GPU-dense, high-bandwidth AI cloud services on a pay-per-use model. Yotta is investing over $2 billion in this project, leveraging NVIDIA’s latest chips.

L&T’s Gigawatt-Scale Infrastructure

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is building sovereign, gigawatt-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure to reinforce India’s position as a global AI powerhouse. Initial expansions are planned in Chennai (30 megawatts) and Mumbai (40 megawatts), providing secure and energy-efficient infrastructure for advanced AI applications.

E2E Networks and the TIR Platform

E2E Networks is developing an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU cluster on its TIR platform, hosted at the L&T Vyoma Data Center in Chennai. The platform will feature NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA Enterprise software, and NVIDIA Nemotron open models, aiming to supercharge sovereign development across various sectors including agentic AI, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and agriculture.

Developing Frontier AI Models with NVIDIA Technologies

The IndiaAI Mission, through its Innovation Center Pillar, is focused on developing and deploying foundation models trained on India-specific data. Recognizing India’s linguistic diversity – with 22 constitutionally recognized languages and over 1,500 more – frontier AI models are seen as crucial for enabling technology access for its 1.4 billion residents.

NVIDIA Nemotron and NeMo Framework

Organizations across India are utilizing NVIDIA Nemotron open models, datasets, tools, and libraries to build frontier speech, language, and multimodal models. The NVIDIA NeMo framework is central to these efforts.

Key Indian Organizations Leveraging NVIDIA Technologies:

• BharatGen: A government-supported initiative developing a 17-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model using the NVIDIA NeMo framework.
• Chariot: Building an 8-billion-parameter model for real-time text-to-speech using NeMo.
• Commotion: Integrating NVIDIA Nemotron models into its AI operating system for automating enterprise workflows.
• CoRover.ai: Deploying NVIDIA Nemotron Speech models for multilingual automatic speech recognition for Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation.
• Gnani.ai: Building a 14-billion-parameter speech-to-speech model on NVIDIA Nemotron Speech models, achieving a 15x reduction in inference costs.
• National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI): Exploring training FiMi, a financial model for India, using the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model.
• Sarvam.ai: Open-sourcing its Sarvam-3 series of text and multimodal large language model variants, trained for 22 Indic languages.
• Soket.ai: Utilizing a modern large-model training stack on open NVIDIA Nemotron technologies.
• Tech Mahindra: Developing an 8-billion-parameter foundation model tailored for Indian languages and dialects.
• Zoho: Advancing its Zia LLM platform with proprietary models built using NVIDIA NeMo.

Expanding Access to NVIDIA AI Infrastructure

Developers can access NVIDIA Nemotron and NeMo on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, including NVIDIA DGX Spark, now available in India through partners like PNY, RP tech India, and Tech Data. A version manufactured in India as part of the “Craft in India” initiative is available through Netweb.

Government and Academic Collaboration

NVIDIA is collaborating with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to spur AI research across India’s leading academic institutions, offering access to NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and technical mentorship. Partnerships with venture capital firms like Peak XV, Z47, Elevation Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, and Accel India will further support AI startups.

Read more about NVIDIA’s support for the IndiaAI Mission.