India, Feb. 18 -- At a time when India is positioning itself as an emerging global artificial intelligence (AI) data centre hub with significant investments on the agenda, tech giant Nvidia has announced a number of partnerships that span what the company calls a five-layer AI cake. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia at Nvidia, calls AI essential infrastructure "just as electricity or the internet was in previous generations".

Nvidia's three-pronged focus on India is defined by investments for the country's AI mission, which include infrastructure expansion as well as frontier model development. Secondly, Nvidia is making a case for its Nemotron foundational models, as well as AI enterprise s...