<br>Yotta Data Teams Up with NVIDIA for India's AI Revolution

Yotta Data Services and NVIDIA have joined forces to provide advanced GPU computing infrastructure and platforms for the Shakti Cloud platform. This partnership aims to enhance the AI landscape in India by making cutting-edge AI capabilities accessible to a wide range of organizations, businesses, researchers, and startups. The collaboration empowers Yotta customers to train large language models (LLMs) and address the increasing demands of Indian, Asian, and global markets.

Yotta has committed to a substantial order of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, renowned for their potency in AI and HPC workloads. The company aims to commence operations with 4,096 GPUs by January 2024 and escalate to 16,384 GPUs by June 2024. Aligned with NVIDIA's support and a shared vision for advancing India's independent AI capabilities, Yotta further plans an ambitious expansion of its GPU inventory to 32,768 by the close of 2025. This strategic move directly addresses the surging demand for high-performance GPUs among research labs, enterprises, and startups engaging in HPC and AI workloads.

Through this partnership, Yotta achieved the distinction of being the inaugural NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partner (NCP) in India and secured a place on the global NCP list as an Elite Partner.

Moreover, Yotta is implementing a reference architecture powered by NVIDIA, incorporating NVIDIA InfiniBand networking. This configuration enables GPU clusters to achieve exceptional performance at scale, catering to extensive AI training and inferencing workloads, along with high-performance computing (HPC) demands.

From its inception, Yotta's Shakti Cloud AI platform will integrate a range of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, encompassing foundational AI models and applications. This inclusion aims to empower Indian enterprises to develop robust AI tools and products.

Yotta is set to install its initial cluster of 16,384 GPUs at NM1, acclaimed as Asia's largest Uptime Tier-IV data center situated in Navi Mumbai. Following this deployment, Yotta plans to replicate a cluster of similar size at D1, its latest and most extensive hyperscale data center located in Greater Noida, near Delhi.

This partnership arises amid a remarkable surge in India's endeavors to embrace AI, marking the country as a focal point for research, online gaming, and digital content creation. The anticipated growth in AI adoption is projected to exceed 20% annually, reaching US$14 billion by 2030. Simultaneously, the Indian gaming industry is poised for substantial expansion, aiming to reach US$5 billion by 2025. The thriving growth in these sectors underscores the crucial role of GPU computing in meeting the evolving demands of customers.

Darshan Hiranandani, Co-founder and chairman of Yotta, and Sunil Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of Yotta, share the excitement. “Yotta is proud to join forces with NVIDIA, a global leader in GPU technology, in India to launch our Shakti Cloud platform to usher in a new era of computing innovation in line with the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister for a digital Bharat. We’re excited to embark on this journey, leveraging our scalable cloud and data center infrastructure and NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPU technology to empower Indian businesses, governments, startups, and researchers with unparalleled GPU-as-a-Service solutions to catalyze advancements in AI, machine learning, gaming, content creation, and scientific research. Yotta aims to accelerate innovation and transform industries across India, delivering the power of NVIDIA GPUs as a service to drive growth, efficiency, and excellence. This collaborative work represents a significant milestone in our journey, and we are excited about the endless possibilities it holds for our customers and India as a whole. We are also thankful for the continuing support of the Ministry of Information Technology and the governments of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for making this a reality.”

Commenting on this development, Jay Puri, executive vice president of Worldwide Field Operations at NVIDIA, said, “India has emerged as a vibrant hub for technological innovation and digital transformation. Our collaboration with Yotta will help open up access to the specialized infrastructure that makes AI possible at scale and bring GPU capabilities to customers in India, accelerating advancements in AI and fostering innovation across industries.”

Key Highlights of the Collaboration:

Accelerating AI computing in India: 

Leveraging NVIDIA GPU hardware, Yotta aims to substantially expedite the capacity of Indian enterprises to develop potent AI tools and services tailored for the global market.

Democratizing GPU power:

Yotta is set to enable businesses of all sizes in India to access GPU resources on demand, revolutionizing their operational and innovative capabilities.

Boosting innovation:

Via GPUaaS, Yotta seeks to drive advancements in AI, gaming, scientific research, data analytics, and beyond, establishing India as a prominent global technology leader.

Robust, world-class infrastructure & technology:

Yotta's top-tier data center and cloud services will offer a secure and scalable environment, facilitating businesses in harnessing the power of NVIDIA GPUs.

Market disruption & expansion: 

By leveraging NVIDIA technology, Yotta is set to revolutionize the conventional means through which enterprises access GPU computing. The introduction of on-demand and scalable GPU resources will broaden accessibility to new customer segments and sectors. Yotta's overarching goal is to democratize access to GPU resources, fostering innovation and competitiveness across diverse sectors. The Shakti Cloud platform from Yotta will provide GPUs along with a range of associated AI and PaaS services in a highly cost-effective manner, utilizing a per-hour usage model, with additional options for long-term reservations.