- Published on September 12, 2023
- In Global Tech
How Many GPUs is India Buying from NVIDIA?
“We are going to bring out the fastest computers in the world. These computers are not even in production [so far]. India will be one of the first countries in the world [to get them],” says Jensen Huang, in a recent interaction with AIM.
- By Siddharth Jindal
Five years ago, Jensen Huang personally hand delivered the first NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer to a startup, which was none other than OpenAI. If it took them about five years to reach where they are, how much time will it take for Reliance or Tata – to reach OpenAI-level of success in AI?
“OpenAI currently has more than 10,000 GPUs (i.e. close to 40 AI supercomputers),” said NVIDIA CEO Huang Jensen, in an exclusive interaction with AIM, explaining that each AI supercomputer rack consists of 256 GPUs (as shown below).
Huang swiftly did the math and estimated that India will get about 10s of thousands of GPUs in order to build infrastructure – i.e. about 1,00,000 GPUs and below, or less than 400 AI supercomputers. Huang is optimistic about India'
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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