Reliance Jio and IIT-B will collaborate on the Bharat GPT

Mumbai: In order to implement the federal government’s plan to create an indigenous GPT platform named Bharat GPT, Reliance Jio and IIT Bombay will collaborate. For this, GPT and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions are being investigated by Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan of IIT’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. At IIT-B’s Techfest, Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani announced this partnership.

IIT-B’s annual science and technology festival, Techfest, got underway on Wednesday. During an interview with Shraddha Sharma, Ambani discussed his goals for his company and his time in college. Ambani said, “In 2014 we launched 4G on the IIT-B campus during Techfest,” in reference to the organization’s ten-year relationship with the IIT-B Techfest. Our relationship with it has persisted ever since to different degrees. Ambani went on to promote his company’s involvement in the IIT-B New Era project. He said, “We will be collaborating with IIT-B on the Bharat GPT artificial intelligence project.”

Telecom and retail are two important industry areas that use GPT and LLM-based solutions. In an innovative Public-Private Partnership project headed by IIT Bombay, the Bharat GPT consortium was founded a year ago with the goal of creating multimodal and multilingual models that are centered to India. Other academic institutions like IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, and IIM Indore are part of the collaboration.

Prof. Ramakrishnan said, “The vision of the Bharat GPT consortium unveils a transformative era where generative AI will integrate Bharatiya culture and foster economic growth and state-of-the-art innovation.” “We aim to develop the Indian AI ecosystem that fosters technological inclusion throughout all Indian economic and social strata, blending cutting-edge technology with Bharat’s rich heritage, beyond advancing Generative AI capabilities.”

In order to facilitate grassroots innovations producing solutions that are India-centric, the Bharat GPT collaboration proposes to share a number of multilingual and multimodal fundamental models together with the apps and their implementation recipes.

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“Defense products will soon be India’s largest export.”

Former DRDO head Sathish Reddy discussed India’s impressive advancement in defense technology since independence in a talk. He emphasized that although the country had previously relied on outside sources for defense technology, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw the start of indigenous initiatives like Pokhran and the Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV).

“India has emerged as a self-sufficient force in defense technology, attaining maturity in multiple fields and initiating the export of defense equipment valued at an astounding ₹16,000 crore,” Reddy said. Additionally, he drew attention to a notable change in the recent five or six years in the production of defense equipment. “Roughly 17,000 industries in Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities currently support the defense industry,” he said. “In addition, the paradigm shift is apparent in the number of start-ups that are actively involved in defense-related projects—roughly 2,000 to 4,000 start-ups.”