Yotta Data Services has collaborated with NVIDIA to advance sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) development across India and Southeast Asia by making its graphic processing unit (GPU) compute resources available on NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud Lepton platform.
Yotta’s Shakti Cloud will integrate with DGX Cloud Lepton software and host the training of Sarvam’s Sovereign Large Language Model (LLM), designed exclusively for Indian languages and use cases. Developed in partnership with the Government of India under the IndiaAI Mission, this model serves as a foundation for the nation’s generative and agentic AI development.
As part of this integration, Yotta becomes one of the first participants in the new DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace. Yotta is also one of only five Reference Platform NVIDIA Cloud Partners globally and the first NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) in the Asia-Pacific region to join the NVIDIA Exemplar Clouds initiative.
The platform integrates with the NVIDIA software stack, including NVIDIA NIM and NeMo microservices, NVIDIA Blueprints and NVIDIA Cloud Functions (NVCF), to accelerate and simplify the development and deployment of AI applications.
Yotta is adopting DGX Cloud Lepton GPU management software, which delivers real-time GPU health diagnostics and automates root-cause analysis, eliminating manual operations and reducing downtime.
Yotta’s Shakti Cloud GPUs coming to the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace reside in Yotta’s Tier IV certified NM1 data center, Mumbai and D1, North India’s largest data center, Greater Noida, supporting sovereign AI with data residing within India’s borders and under India’s jurisdiction. The DGX Cloud Lepton software stack enables real-time GPU health monitoring and automated workload orchestration across Yotta’s multi-region infrastructure. Developers can discover and procure on-demand or reserved GPU instances, supporting seamless access from training to deployment.
Sarvam will be the first to access Yotta Shakti Cloud with NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton and NVIDIA NeMo to train India’s sovereign Large Language Model. Sarvam is on a mission to build the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India and make generative AI (GenAI) a reality for Bharat. The team has already demonstrated proven capability in developing foundational models proficient in Indian languages.
Commenting on the announcement, Sunil Gupta, co-founder, chief executive officer and managing director, Yotta, said, “AI cloud computing is pivotal to India’s digital future. As an empaneled partner in the India AI Mission, Yotta is proud to contribute to the nation’s vision by delivering sovereign, high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure through NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton. This enables startups, enterprises, and researchers to build homegrown large language models and AI solutions that reinforce digital sovereignty and innovation at scale. As part of our commitment, in the near future we are deploying the latest NVIDIA B200 GPUs to support advanced AI workloads, from LLMs and recommender systems to generative applications, accelerating India’s leadership in AI.”
Meanwhile, Alexis Bjorlin, vice president, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA, said, “India stands at the threshold of a new era, where cloud-powered NVIDIA AI infrastructure can serve as an engine of innovation for over a billion people. With Yotta on the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace, local enterprises and startups can build and deploy world-class AI to empower India’s digital transformation.”
In addition, Vivek Raghavan, co-founder, Sarvam, said, “We are building multi-modal, multi-scale foundation models that are capable of reasoning, designed for voice, and fluent in Indian languages. Training our models on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, powered by NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, is a meaningful step in advancing India’s sovereignty in AI. This partnership will help us bring AI into real-world use, from citizen services to enterprise applications, all built and run within the country.”
