Jio to build Bharat GPT program in partnership with IIT-Bombay

Telecom company Reliance Jio Infocomm is working with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-Bombay) to launch Bharat GPT program. This was announced by the Ambani scion and Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani at IIT-Bombay’s Techfest. Notably, this partnership dates back to 2014.

“We have been working on a project with IIT-Bombay to launch the Bharat GPT programme," he said. Ambani said that artificial intelligence (AI) will not just be vertical inside the organisation but will be leveraged horizontally across the services and sectors, adding that the next decade would be defined by large language models. According to the Jio Infocomm chairman, AI also stands for ‘all included’. “We will always keep an eye for formative technologies that shape society and benefit a lot of people,” he said.

It may be noted that shortly after Nvidia’s chief Jensen Huang's visit to India, Jio Infocomm parent Reliance Industries signed a partnership with the chipmaker. The scope of the partnership includes developing indigenous foundation LLM tailored for generative AI applications. Nvidia will be providing Jio with end-to-end AI technologies, which include CPU, GPU, and AI operating systems.

Jio also plans to launch an operating system for television.“We have been working on our own OS (operating system) for a while now for TVs and we are comprehensively thinking about how to launch it,” he added. 

Ambani said that the work on Jio 2.0 is on and that the company is excited about the prospects of 5G private network and offering a 5G stack to all enterprises, irrespective of their size.