Every day seems to bring news of yet another technological breakthrough making waves in our world. Scarcely a day passes without the latest advancements capturing our attention. And this trend shows no signs of slowing down. At the heart of this ongoing wave of progress lies the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a phenomenon that continues to redefine the boundaries of possibility in our digitised society.
Co-founder, MD & CEO at Yotta
Traditionally, AI has been perceived as an exclusive domain, accessible only to a select few. However, at Yotta, we challenge this notion. We are staunch advocates for the democratisation of AI, working to make this powerful tool available to every business, regardless of size. That’s why we’ve worked tirelessly to create Shakti Cloud, a platform that embodies this belief.
India and the AI Revolution
India’s growing demand for digital services highlights its potential to lead the global AI revolution. Enterprises prioritising AI and Machine Learning in their IT budgets recognise the opportunity to enhance revenue streams. However, achieving this potential requires substantial investments in AI infrastructure, which has been hindered by the absence of essential components such as advanced GPUs, high-throughput network, and storage systems. Despite this challenge, India is rich in skilled AI professionals. Now, what’s crucial is the establishment of top-tier infrastructure capable of propelling AI development forward. This is precisely what Shakti Cloud aims to achieve.
Shakti Cloud: Leading the Charge
Shakti Cloud harnesses the power of 16,384 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and thousands of NVIDIA L40S GPUs, surpassing conventional computational capabilities. These GPUs expedite tasks, making AI adoption not only efficient but also cost-effective. Shakti Cloud ensures scalability and reliability by integrating exabytes of low-latency, high-performance storage. The infrastructure incorporates high-speed NVMe disks and SSD-based storage. Users can scale their AI applications effortlessly, without the constraints of storage limitations or performance bottlenecks.
Moreover, Shakti Cloud employs NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand switches, providing fast speeds and data transmission. Security remains paramount, with the inclusion of NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, which safeguard user data through a Zero-Trust Architecture. Shakti Cloud offers a highly sophisticated orchestration layer and self-service portal incorporating NVIDIA AI E software stack and various other open-source software and libraries. This gives customers an end-to-end ML-ops environment, enabling them to use various model training frameworks, perform various data curation/annotation/generation operations, and allow customers to use hundreds of pre-trained models in Yotta Bazaar to create their own fine-tuned models. Customers can also publish their trained models and applications on Yotta Bazaar for easy access to their target end customers. Shakti Cloud offers accelerated performance for fine-tuning and LLM training and provides breakthrough inference performance, ensuring real-time, reliable responsiveness for tasks such as text and image generation, along with capabilities to tackle high-fidelity creative workflows.
The Power of AI for Every Dream
The applications of AI are vast and evolving, ranging from optimising financial strategies and fraud detection to enhancing customer experiences in retail. AI continuously reshapes the boundaries of what’s achievable and holds significant potential to impact sectors such as healthcare, financial services, automotive, transportation, and logistics.
At the forefront of this is Shakti Cloud. For researchers, our platform provides tools for fast deployment and optimisation of threads and kernels, along with intuitive optimisation tools. Similarly, for data scientists and applied researchers, Shakti Cloud streamlines processes by reducing training time, enhancing visualisation capabilities, and offering intuitive tools.
Additionally, for sysadmins and IT developers, Shakti Cloud offers solutions for maximising uptime, understanding Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and implementing robust health-checking tools. Challenges such as scalability and data security are carefully addressed through the platform, allowing IT teams to manage resources effectively while ensuring data privacy and security measures are in place.
Breaking Down Barriers to AI Adoption
Shakti Cloud makes way for widespread AI adoption by dismantling traditional barriers. Here’s how we’re making it happen:
- AI development has been costly, needing expensive hardware and specialised skills. Shakti Cloud offers access to pre-trained AI models and tools at a fraction of the cost, making AI accessible to all businesses.
- Shakti Cloud has a user-friendly interface and intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, removing the need for extensive coding knowledge. This empowers even those with limited technical expertise to fully utilise the power of AI.
- With its cloud-based infrastructure, Shakti Cloud facilitates scalability for AI applications. This means that users no longer need to make substantial upfront investments in hardware. Instead, they can adjust the scale of their AI projects to match their evolving needs over time.
- What sets Shakti Cloud apart is its deep understanding of the Indian market’s unique challenges and opportunities. We’re tailoring AI models specifically to address the needs of Indian businesses, spanning sectors such as agriculture, healthcare, and finance.
Users of Shakti Cloud gain access to a plethora of benefits, encompassing a diverse array of available services, foundational models catering to text, images, and multi-modals, along with the advantage of unlimited data transfer, free from any ingress and egress constraints. Hosted in a certified Fault Tolerant data center, Shakti Cloud guarantees reliability even under adverse conditions, while its commitment to environmental sustainability is evident through the sourcing of over 50% of its power from green energy.
As AI innovation continues to surge in India, the future of our nation is unmistakably AI-powered. India is positioned at the forefront, paving the way for a future brimming with possibilities for every citizen and industry. Shakti Cloud is a testament to this commitment. By making AI accessible and affordable, Shakti Cloud empowers businesses to participate in India’s AI journey and achieve their potential.
