NVIDIA to train 50,000 Infosys employees on generative AI technology

Indian IT behemoth Infosys and US-based NVIDIA on Wednesday announced collaboration with an aim to help enterprises globally drive productivity gains with generative AI (artificial intelligence) applications and solutions. Through the alliance, Infosys plans to set up an NVIDIA Centre of Excellence, where 50,000 Infosys employees will be trained and certified in NVIDIA AI technology.

Through the alliance, Infosys is planning to bring the NVIDIA AI Enterprise ecosystem of models, tools, runtimes and GPU systems to Infosys Topaz, in order to integrate generative AI into businesses.

"Infosys Topaz offerings and solutions are complementary to NVIDIA’s core stack. By combining our strengths and training 50,000 of our workforce on NVIDIA AI technology, we are creating end-to-end industry-leading AI solutions that will help enterprises on their journey to become AI-first," says Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and chairman, Infosys.

According to Infosys, the collaboration extends to digitalisation applications with a focus on developing solutions for enterprise use cases across 3D workflows, design collaboration, digital twin, and world simulation amongst others. Infosys and NVIDIA are also co-developing AI-powered solutions in areas like 5G, cybersecurity and energy transition, says the company.

Notably, this is not the first time that NVIDIA and Infosys have partnered to provide AI generative AI solutions. According to the company, Infosys already uses the full-stack NVIDIA generative AI platform including hardware and enterprise-grade software to innovate across its business operation and to create generative AI applications for business operations, sales and marketing. The domestic IT behemoth has also developed multiple AI-first enterprise offerings using NVIDIA NeMo LLE framework, NVIDIA Metropolis for computer vision and NVIDIA Riva for speech AI.

"Generative AI will drive the next wave of enterprise productivity gains. The NVIDIA AI Enterprise ecosystem is ramping up quickly to provide the platform for generative AI. Together, NVIDIA and Infosys will create an expert workforce to help businesses use this platform to build custom applications and solutions," says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA.

The development comes days after NVIDIA announced the partnership with Reliance Industries in order to develop India's own foundation large language model trained on the country's diverse languages and tailored for generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications to serve the world's most populous nation. The companies said that they will work together to build AI infrastructure that is expected to be more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India. The companies say they will work together to build AI infrastructure that is expected to be more powerful than the fastest supercomputer in India.

Over the past several months, top IT companies such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro, have already announced investments in generative AI.