Reliance Jio, IIT Bombay working on AI project `BharatGPT’

Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom arm of the Reliance Industries Group, is working with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to develop an artificial intelligence project called `Bharat GPT’, Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, said at the IIT’s annual Techfest in Mumbai on Thursday. 

"We have been working on a project with IIT Bombay to launch the Bharat GPT programme. We are working very hard to launch AI not only as a vertical inside our organisation, but also horizontally across all our sectors," Ambani said.

The joint project is looking to develop a large-language model tailored to India’s needs, he said, adding that.

Reliance Jio is also planning to launch an operating system (OS) for televisions. "We have been working on our own OS for a while now for the TVs and we are comprehensively thinking about how to launch it," he said.

AI is going to "consume everything. To me, AI stands for artificial intelligence, and also stands for all included," he said.

Reliance Jio is very excited to offer 5G private networks which includes a 5G stack to any enterprise, he added.

Reliance Jio, he said, is planning to launch a host of products and services in in media space, commerce, communication and devices, he said.

Addressing the TM Forum, a global alliance of telco and tech companies, earlier this month, Ambani announced the opening of the first TM Forum Innovation Hub, in Mumbai. The Innovation Hub, the first of its kind for the industry, will focus its efforts on accelerating the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) and Large Language Models (LLM) and Open Digital Architecture to benefit the whole industry, he said.

Founding members of the Innovation Hub include Accenture, Deutsche Telekom, Google Cloud, Orange, Telenor and Vodafone. The opening ceremony was held at RIL’s corporate IT Park in Navi, Mumbai.