Reliance Jio set to introduce ‘Bharat GPT’ with big plans
Reliance Jio set to introduce 'Bharat GPT' with big plans
Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani announced that their company is working with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay to launch a ‘Bharat GPT’ programme.
Ambani, on Wednesday, said, “We are working very hard to launch AI not only as a vertical inside our organization but also horizontally across all our sectors.”
The company, a unit of Reliance Industries, is also ‘comprehensively thinking’ to launch an operating system for televisions, he said, adding that it has been working on it for a while now.
Speaking at the institute’s annual Techfest here, the 32-year-old Ambani family scion said building an ‘ecosystem of development’ is very important for the company, and added that work on the vision of ‘Jio 2.0’ is already on.
“We have been working on a project with IIT Bombay to launch a Bharat GPT programme,” he said while speaking about the partnership between Jio and the premier tech school, which goes back to 2014. At present, we have just scratched the surface with large language models and generative AI and the next decade will be defined by these applications, he said.
Anticipating the transformative impact of artificial intelligence, Ambani shared the company’s dedication to integrating AI vertically within the organization and horizontally across all sectors. As part of this commitment, Jio is poised to introduce innovative products and services, solidifying its position as a technology leader in India.
The company will be launching products and services in the media space, commerce, communication and also devices, he added.
“We have been working on our own OS (operating system) for a while now for the TVs and we are comprehensively thinking about how to launch it,” Ambani said.
About the Year 2024, he said that it is a special year for the family, as his brother is set to get married in the year.
He shared that the company is very excited about offering 5G private networks, where it will offer a 5G stack to any enterprise irrespective of its size.
Ambani called India the ‘biggest innovation centre’ for the next decade, and exuded confidence that the country will be a USD 6 trillion economy by the end of the decade.
AI is going to ‘consume everything’, Ambani said, describing how his brother-in-law showed him an AI app to control the temperature of his mattress yesterday. “To me, yes AI stands for artificial intelligence, but it also stands for all included,” he said.
He said at Jio, the company works with a belief that what it is pursuing is good for India and termed money as the ‘byproduct’ of the service rendered to the country.
Calling Jio the largest startup in the world, Ambani said there is a need for young entrepreneurs to not be fearful of failing.
Ambani also asked the entrepreneurs to work for societal good, especially if one is dabbling in the consumer space, and also asked everybody to be deeply passionate about the work they do.
