India's BharatGPT group, backed by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and top engineering schools in the country, aims to launch its first ChatGPT-style service in March this year.
The AI model is being developed in collaboration with eight Indian Institutes of Technology and is backed by Reliance Jio Infocomm and the Indian government, reports Live Mint.
The model will work via 11 local languages in four fields: healthcare, governance, financial services and education.
The model ‘Hanooman’ will also offer speech-to-text capabilities, making it vastly more user-friendly, Bloomberg quoted Ganesh Ramakrishnan, chair of IIT Bombay’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering as saying, on the sidelines of the annual Nasscom IT industry conference.
Some other Indian startups like Sarvam and Krutrim, backed by prominent VC investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners and billionaire Vinod Khosla’s fund, are also working on open-sourced AI models customised for the country.
Reliance Jio plans to build customised models for specific uses.
The telecom-to-retail conglomerate is already working on ‘Jio Brain’, a platform to use AI across a network of about 450 million subscribers.
