In an announcement made today, Yotta Data Services announced that it has partnered with NVIDIA to provide cutting-edge GPU computing infrastructure and platforms for the Shakti Cloud platform.. A key goal of the collaboration is to advance the development of AI solutions in India by bringing state-of-the-art AI capabilities within reach of many organizations, businesses, AI researchers, and a plethora of startups in the country.. In order to meet the growing needs of Indian, Asian, and broader global markets, Yotta customers will be able to train large language models (LLMs) and other AI workloads with this offering.
In order to meet the growing needs of Indian, Asian, and broader global markets, Yotta customers will be able to train large language models (LLMs) and other AI workloads with this offering.
In January 2024, Yotta has placed a large order for NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, a powerful GPU for AI and HPC workloads, and plans to go operational with 4096 GPUs by January 2024 and 16,384 GPUs by June 2024.. As part of its partnership with NVIDIA, Yotta plans to massively scale up its GPU stable to 32,768 by the end of 2025 with the support of NVIDIA and a shared vision for India's sovereignty in AI.. In this way, we will be able to directly address the huge demand for high-performance GPUs that research labs, enterprises, and startups have for HPC and AI tasks
In this way, we will be able to directly address the huge demand for high-performance GPUs that research labs, enterprises, and startups have for HPC and AI tasks
It is with this collaboration that Yotta becomes the first NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partner (NCP) in India and joins the NCP elite partner list of the global NVIDIA Partner Network.
In addition, Yotta is planning to deploy an NVIDIA-powered reference architecture with NVIDIA InfiniBand networking, which will allow GPU clusters to deliver great performance at scale, whether it is for large AI training and inference workloads or HPC workloads as well.
As part of its Shakti Cloud AI platform, Yotta will offer a range of PaaS services from its very first day, including foundational AI models and applications that will help Indian enterprises develop powerful artificial intelligence tools and products.
Yotta will deploy the first cluster of 16,384 GPUs at NM1, a highly acclaimed and Asia's largest Uptime Tier-IV data center, located in Navi Mumbai. Next, Yotta will deploy a similar-sized cluster at D1, Yotta's newest and largest hyperscale data center in Greater Noida, near Delhi, in the near future.
A collaboration like this comes at a time when the adoption of artificial intelligence in India is booming, and it has become a hub for research, online gaming, and digital content creation, at a time when the country's efforts to adopt AI are growing rapidly. By 2030, it is predicted that AI adoption in India will grow by more than 20%, reaching US$14 billion. It is also expected that the Indian gaming industry will grow rapidly by 2025, reaching US$5 billion. In order to meet customer demand, all of these industries rely heavily on GPU computing.
Darshan Hiranandani, Co-founder and Chairman of Yotta, and Sunil Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Yotta, share their excitement about the upcoming launch. "Yotta is proud to announce that it will be joining forces with NVIDIA, a global industry leader in GPU technology in India to launch our Shakti Cloud platform which will usher in a new era of computing innovation, in line with the vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister for a digital India.. As we embark on this journey, we are looking forward to utilizing our scalable cloud and data center infrastructure, as well as NVIDIA's cutting-edge GPU technology, to provide businesses, governments, startups, and researchers with GPU-as-a-Service solutions to catalyze advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, gaming, content creation and scientific research in India.. As a company, Yotta strives to accelerate innovation and transform industries across India by delivering the power of NVIDIA GPUs as a service to drive growth, efficiency, and excellence in the industries.. As a result of this collaborative effort, we have reached an important milestone in our journey and we are excited about the endless possibilities that it holds for our customers and India as a whole in the future. In addition, we would like to thank the Ministry of Information Technology, as well as the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for their ongoing support in making this project a reality
In addition, we would like to thank the Ministry of Information Technology, as well as the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for their ongoing support in making this project a reality
Jay Puri, executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations at NVIDIA, commented on this development by saying, "India has emerged as a vibrant hub of technological innovation and digital transformation in the global market. By collaborating with Yotta, we will be able to provide Indian customers with access to the specialized infrastructure that allows AI to be implemented at scale, as well as GPU capabilities, thereby accelerating advances in artificial intelligence and fostering innovation across industries.
The following are some of the key highlights of the collaboration:

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