Jio and IIT-Bombay working on "Bharat GPT"

According to Reliance Jio Infocomm Chairman Akash Ambani, the company is working with IIT Bombay to introduce a "Bharat GPT" program. Additionally, he stated that the company has been working on an operating system for televisions for some time and is actively exploring launching it. He emphasized the significance of creating an ecosystem of development.

At the institute’s Techfest, Akash Ambani said that it is very important for the company to build an “ecosystem of development”. He also added that work on the vision of “Jio 2.0” is already on.

While talking about the partnership between Jio and IIT Bombay which started in 2014, Ambani said, “We have been working on a project with IIT Bombay to launch a Bharat GPT programme.”

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.

Ambani said artificial intelligence will be transforming every area of products and services and added, “We are working very hard to launch AI not only as a vertical inside our organization, but also horizontally across all our sectors,” he said.   

He further added that the company will come up with products and services in the media space, commerce, communication and also devices.

“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.

He also mentioned that the company is looking forward to offering 5G private networks, where it will offer a 5G stack to any enterprise irrespective of its size.

Ambani called India as 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.