Dayananda Sagar University Partners with NVIDIA to Build India’s first AI factory with ₹ 175 cr investment

Dayananda Sagar University, a leading private multidisciplinary university in Bengaluru, recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NVIDIA to build India’s first AI-first Factory. The initiative will leverage NVIDIA’s next-generation AI supercomputing platform, Blackwell, designed for large-scale model training and inference, enabling AI-driven innovation in education and multidisciplinary research, and supporting the development of sovereign AI capabilities from India to the world.

The objective is to address the country’s most binding AI constraints: underequipped infrastructure, consumption of foreign AI models, lack of domestic Supercomputing technologies and a disconnect between academic training and industry deployment needs.

With Dayananda Sagar University’s (DSU) investment exceeding ₹175 crore, the AI-first factory is intended for production-grade AI computing in an academic setting, which means there is alignment between academic research and education and production-grade AI development environments for students, researchers, and enterprises.

“The collaboration with NVIDIA marks a fundamental shift in how we, as a university, are looking to employ innovation in the field of AI,” said Dr. D. Premachandra Sagar, Founder & Pro-Chancellor, Dayananda Sagar University. “By establishing an NVIDIA-powered AI factory–class infrastructure on our campus, we are enabling students and researchers to work on real-world AI systems, while directly contributing to India’s long-term goals around Aatmanirbhar Bharat, sovereign technology development, responsible AI, and future-ready talent creation.”

Additionally, Dayananda Sagar University will create six industry-integrated Centres of Excellence with over ₹ 50 crore in CAPEX, focusing on healthcare, engineering, defence, cybersecurity, semiconductors, smart mobility, and sustainability. These Centres will serve as hubs for specialized AI research and application, bridging academia and industry to drive innovation in key sectors. To support this, the university is actively hiring chief architects to lead the initiative, responsible for architecting platforms, building elite teams, and converting raw compute power into deployable intelligence systems.

Also, the university has established the DSU–Siemens Sustainability & Net Zero Collaboration, which implements Siemens technologies to develop sustainable campus areas and climate-resilient infrastructure systems as a part of this initiative.

Dayananda Sagar University is also aiming to skill around 20,000 students across disciplines to prepare them for new job roles emerging with AI technologies, including AI and ML applications, generative AI and LLM development, AI platforms and MLOps, AI product architecture, and domain-specific AI applications in healthcare, cybersecurity, robotics, electronics, and smart systems. 

DSU will showcase its vision for India’s first AI-First Factory at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, being held in New Delhi from 16–20 February. The exhibit, located at Stall Nos. 6.26, 6.27, 6.32 and 6.33 at Bharat Mandapam, will be among the largest at the summit. Powered by NVIDIA, the pavilion will feature humanoid robotics demonstrations and highlight DSU’s strategic collaborations with SIEMENS and other key partners.