The model is being developed in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology universities including in Bombay, backed by Reliance Jio Infocomm and Centre.
The consortium — which includes Reliance and eight affiliated universities—offered a sneak peek of the model during a technology conference in Mumbai. The model — dubbed Hanooman—displayed a motorcycle mechanic interacting with the AI bot in Tamil, a banker conversed with the tool in Hindi and a Hyderabad-based developer used the tool to write a computer code.
The model will work via 11 local languages in four fields: health care, governance, financial services and education.
The model ‘Hanooman’ will also offer speech-to-text capabilities, making it vastly more user-friendly, Bloomberg quoted Ganesh Ramakrishnan, chair of IIT Bombay’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering as saying on the sidelines of the annual Nasscom IT industry conference.
It is important to know that some other startups like Sarvam and Krutrim, backed by prominent VC investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners and billionaire Vinod Khosla’s fund, are also working on open-sourced AI models customized for the country.
The report said the Reliance Jio plans to build customized models for specific uses. The telecom-to-retail conglomerate is already working on ‘Jio Brain’, a platform to use AI across a network of about 450 million subscribers.
LLMs are systems that learn from vast quantities of data and generate natural-sounding responses. Such models harness generative AI, a newer type of artificial intelligence popularized by the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
BharatGPT’s effort in this space is somewhat unique — it’s the first private-public partnership of its kind in the country and involves major players in disparate fields.
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Published: 21 Feb 2024, 04:04 PM IST