Reliance Jio & IIT-Bombay collaborate on ‘Bharat GPT’
Reliance Jio Infocomm chairman Akash Ambani on Wednesday said the country’s largest telecom is working with Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay to launch a ‘Bharat GPT’ programme.
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.
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.
The company will be launching products and services in the media space, commerce, communication and also devices, he added.
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.
