At COMPUTEX 2025, NVIDIA made waves with the launch of DGX Cloud Lepton™, a groundbreaking AI compute marketplace that promises to reshape how enterprises access GPU resources worldwide. The platform connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications with tens of thousands of GPUs across a global network of cloud providers, including India’s Yotta Data Services.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang framed the announcement as a critical step in democratizing AI infrastructure. “DGX Cloud Lepton connects our network of global GPU cloud providers with AI developers,” Huang said during his keynote. “Together with our NVIDIA Cloud Partners, we’re building a planetary-scale AI factory.” The marketplace will offer both on-demand and long-term computing options featuring NVIDIA Blackwell architecture GPUs alongside other NVIDIA systems, addressing what has become the single biggest bottleneck in AI development today.
For Sunil Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Yotta Data Services, the inclusion as one of the select NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs) marks a watershed moment for India’s tech ecosystem. “It’s raining recognitions – and they bring credibility, responsibility, and an undeniable signal: India is now competing shoulder-to-shoulder on the global AI stage,” Gupta told TechCircle. Yotta becomes the only Asia-Pacific provider named to both NVIDIA’s Exemplar Clouds and the DGX Cloud Lepton initiative.
The platform solves several critical challenges facing AI developers. By unifying access to cloud AI services and GPU capacity across NVIDIA’s compute ecosystem, DGX Cloud Lepton eliminates the traditional scramble for resources that has hampered many AI projects. The system integrates with NVIDIA’s full software stack including NVIDIA NIM™ and NeMo™ microservices, along with NVIDIA Blueprints and Cloud Functions, creating an end-to-end solution for AI development and deployment.
For enterprises with data sovereignty requirements, particularly in markets like India, the implications are significant. Developers can now tap into GPU compute capacity in specific regions while maintaining compliance with local regulations – a capability Gupta emphasized as transformative. “With direct access to Yotta’s Shakti Cloud through Lepton, enterprises can meet data sovereignty and low-latency needs that are especially crucial for India and the Global South,” he explained.
The timing couldn’t be better for India’s booming AI sector. As Gupta noted, this isn’t just about access to technology but about positioning India as an equal player in global AI development. “This is no longer about catching up. It’s about leading,” he said. “India has arrived. Yotta is ready.”
For cloud providers participating in the program, DGX Cloud Lepton offers sophisticated management software that delivers real-time GPU health diagnostics and automates root-cause analysis. This operational layer promises to reduce downtime while ensuring consistent performance – critical factors for enterprises running production AI workloads.
Industry analysts see the move as NVIDIA doubling down on its ecosystem strategy while addressing the explosive demand for AI compute. With AI projects increasingly requiring specialized infrastructure and facing regulatory scrutiny worldwide, solutions like DGX Cloud Lepton that combine technical capability with compliance flexibility may well define the next phase of enterprise AI adoption.
As Gupta put it to developers and enterprises eyeing the Indian market, “If you are building AI at scale – LLMs, agentic systems, autonomous workflows – it’s time to bring your workloads home to Shakti Cloud.” With NVIDIA’s latest move, that home just got considerably more powerful.
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