India’s AI rush thrusts Nvidia to centrestage

Reliance and chipmaker Nvidia have announced a joint attempt in building artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India, in a big to tap into the sensational popularity of AI services and offer crucial computing power to the country’s start-ups.

The AI rush has made Nvidia unrivalled in the space because of its powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) – demand for which has skyrocketed– and has pushed once dominant companies like Intel to the fringes. Today, Nvidia is the biggest chipmaker in the world, with a market cap of over $3 trillion, second only to Apple.