BharatGPT group back by Reliance Industries is set to launch its first ChatGPT-style service in March 2024. This group includes Reliance and 8 affiliated universities offered a sneak peek of the model which show a motorcycle mechanic India queried an AI bot in Tamil, a banker talk with the tool in Hindi and a developer use it to write computer code.
The model has been call as Hanooman and represents India’s race to develop potentially transformative AI technology.
This model will work via 11 local languages in four fields, Health Care, Governance, Financial Services and Education.
The model is being develop in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology universities and is back by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
Other startups such as Sarvam and Krutrim back by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vinod Khosla’s fund, are also building open-source AI models for India.
Hanooman will offer speech-to-text capabilities to the users.
The main goal is to make it more user-friendly and Reliance Jio will build customize models for specific uses as well.
Reliance is already working on Jio Brain, a platform to use AI across a network of about 450 million subscribers.
