Yotta, Grant Thornton Bharat Partner to Push Cloud & AI Adoption

Consulting and services company Grant Thornton Bharat and Yotta Data Services have formed an alliance to promote the adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) across businesses, startups, and government agencies. 

The collaboration aims to drive innovation, growth, and competitiveness by combining Grant Thornton Bharat’s expertise with Yotta’s infrastructure.

The partnership will leverage Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, offering a platform for AI model training, real-time inference, and application deployment.

This development comes just after the announcement of Grant Thornton Bharat and SaaS giant Zoho’s strategic partnership to enhance digital capabilities for Indian mid-market enterprises.

Sunil Gupta, co-founder, MD and CEO of Yotta, said, “We are delighted to join hands with Grant Thornton Bharat to provide businesses with access to Shakti Cloud’s advanced GPU infrastructure and AI services powered by NVIDIA H100 GPUs.”

The alliance will focus on joint go-to-market initiatives, sales efforts, pre-sales activities, training programs, and the delivery of integrated solutions.

Aniruddha Chakrabarti, partner for cloud, AI and architecture at Grant Thornton Bharat, commented, “We are now seeing clients moving their GenAI POCs to production – cloud-based AI infrastructure, modernising data on cloud, AI as a Service and Model as a Service are key for successful AI-driven transformations.”

Yotta’s Shakti Cloud features infrastructure with over 16,000 H100 GPUs and AI-optimised storage. Grant Thornton Bharat’s services include cloud strategy, AI readiness assessments, and AI-powered automation.

Yotta recently also launched ‘myShakti’, India’s first fully sovereign B2C generative AI chatbot, built on the DeepSeek open-source AI model. 

The chatbot operates entirely on Indian servers, ensuring data security and privacy. Deployed within Yotta’s NM1 data centre, myShakti runs on an advanced server infrastructure comprising 16 nodes of H100 GPUs – a total of 128 H100s.

Last year, in December, the company, in collaboration with NVIDIA, introduced Rudra, a strategic program to accelerate AI innovation for startups, software developers, and service providers in India.

As part of the initiative, startups and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) enrolled in the NVIDIA Inception and Connect programs could receive up to $50,000 in cloud credits on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud. 

A month ago, Yotta launched Drishticam, an AI cloud-based surveillance platform designed to enhance security and operational efficiency across various industries.