Team Startupcity

• E2E Networks wins INR 177 Crore contract from IndiaAI Mission to provide 1.3 Crore GPU hours of NVIDIA H100 & H200 GPUs to Gnani.ai.
• The GPUs will be delivered with InfiniBand single fabric network to support building a 14B parameter voice AI foundational model.
• The deal strengthens India’s AI infrastructure push, boosting homegrown LLM development; E2E shares surged 10% to Rs 2,643 on NSE.

AI-focused cloud service provider E2E Networks has received a contract from the IndiaAI Mission to supply high-performance GPU resources worth INR 177 crore to the AI startup Gnani.ai, according to a filing with the stock exchange.

Under the agreement, E2E Networks will allocate NVIDIA H100 SXM and H200 SXM GPUs to Gnani.ai for 360 days, totaling 1.30 crore GPU hours. These GPUs are designed for data centers and large-scale AI workloads, offering faster data transfer and enhanced power delivery to accelerate AI development.

Also Read: AI Hyperscaler E2E Networks Acquires INR 420.51 Crores to Build Cloud Infrastructure

The GPUs will be provided along with an InfiniBand (IB) network on a single fabric, a high-performance, unified network infrastructure that supports computing and storage across data centers or high-performance clusters.

“This engagement further strengthens E2E Networks’ position in the national AI infrastructure ecosystem and marks a significant step in supporting India’s AI capability building”, the company said. Following the announcement, E2E Networks’ shares surged 10%, hitting the upper circuit at INR 2,643 on the NSE.

Gnani.ai is one of four AI platforms selected under the IndiaAI mission to develop large language models (LLMs). Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI was the first platform selected in April, followed by Soket AI, Gan.ai, and Gnani.ai in May.

The startup is building a 14-billion-parameter voice AI foundational model to deliver multilingual and real-time speech processing with advanced reasoning capabilities. To support this, the government is providing compute infrastructure support to the selected startups, aiming to boost the development of homegrown AI models in India.

This partnership highlights India’s growing focus on developing sovereign AI infrastructure and supporting startups to build advanced AI technologies domestically.