Bosch Software and Digital Solutions (Bosch SDS) and NxtGen have announced a strategic partnership to build and launch India’s Sovereign Industrial AI Cloud, a platform designed to accelerate the country’s Industry 4.0 transformation with secure, compliant and high‑performance AI capabilities fully hosted within India.
The alliance brings together Bosch SDS’s Industry 4.0, Digital Twin, IoT, simulation, and engineering platforms with NxtGen’s sovereign multi‑region cloud, private cloud, edge data centers and GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure. The result is a locally hosted AI environment that supports sensitive industrial workloads while meeting India’s stringent data residency and regulatory requirements.
A key outcome of the partnership will be the launch of a “Digital Twin – Manufacturing Cloud”, integrating NxtGen’s sovereign cloud stack with Bosch SDS’s manufacturing intelligence tools. The platform aims to give Indian enterprises production-grade AI capabilities for predictive maintenance, asset optimization, real-time operational intelligence, and edge‑to‑cloud industrial data orchestration.
“AI in manufacturing and retail is moving from dashboards to real-time operational control.
A S Rajgopal, CEO, NxtGen
According to the companies, the collaboration will include joint go‑to‑market initiatives, sector-specific solution co‑creation, commercial governance models, and managed deployment frameworks. By combining infrastructure and domain-led AI applications, the partnership aims to support enterprises modernizing operations while retaining complete control over sensitive operational data.
As part of the agreement, NxtGen will provide managed GPU infrastructure services, including provisioning, lifecycle management, 24/7 monitoring, security automation, performance optimization, and Kubernetes-based orchestration for large-scale AI workloads. Bosch SDS will contribute domain-focused AI/ML use cases, platform engineering, and solution integration expertise.
Highlighting the deployment flexibility this partnership enables, Ramesh Ramaswamy, Chief Revenue Officer at Bosch SDS, said: “The partnership offers flexible Edge Data Center and Cloud‑at‑Customer models, enabling GPU infrastructure to run inside customer premises while being centrally managed. We aim to guide enterprises beyond traditional digital transformation toward an ‘agentic AI’ journey for truly cognitive operations.”
NxtGen’s CEO A S Rajgopal underscored the market demand for sovereign AI: “AI in manufacturing and retail is moving from dashboards to real-time operational control. That shift needs infrastructure that is local, predictable and production-grade. By hosting Bosch SDS’s platforms on NxtGen, we are redefining how AI is deployed in India from experimental workloads to sovereign, mission-critical systems.”
The companies expect the platform to play a central role in India’s push for digitally enabled, AI-driven industrial modernization.