'Mark Zuckerberg will go down in history for...': RIL chief Mukesh Ambani hails Meta founder

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani (left); Meta founder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg (right)

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani heaped praises on Meta founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg for making the Llama language open source.

“I have great respect for my friend Mark Zuckerberg, he has made Llama open source. Zuckerberg will go down in history for doing this,” Ambani said during a conversation with Nvidia's Jensen Huang in Mumbai on October 24.

Llama, which was released by Meta in February 2023, is a family of autoregressive large language models.

Huang, who leads the global chip major, said Reliance and Nvidia are partnering to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in India.

"This is an excellent opportunity for India to have a large population and a large population of computer engineers. This is such an extraordinary time. I am honoured and privileged to get to partner with you for this," Huang told Ambani.

Speaking at the Nvidia AI Summit 2024, Huang emphasised Nvidia's commitment to expanding its ecosystem in India. "India is very, very dear to the world's computer industry, central to the IT industry, at the centre and core of the IT of just about every single company in the world," he said. "Nvidia's ecosystem in India is very rich. 2024 will see 20 times growth in compute capacities in India."