The BharatGPT group, which is backed by Reliance Industries, is set to come out with an indigenous ChatGPT-style service next month, in what may be a shot in the arm for India's artificial intelligence (AI) aspirations.
The model, named Hanooman, after the Hindi deity Hanuman, is being developed in collaboration with eight Indian Institute of Technology universities, and with the backing of the government.
The model is expected to offer services in four different fields—financial services, healthcare, education, and governance—and will work via 11 local languages.
A sneak peek of the model was offered during the recent technology conference that was held in Mumbai.
At the technology conference, the model displayed a bike mechanic interacting with the AI bot in Tamil and a banker interacting with it in Hindi. Besides, a developer from Hyderabad used the AI robot to write computer code.
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, chair of IIT Bombay’s department of computer science and engineering, remarked that the AI robot will offer speech-to-text capabilities, making it highly user-friendly, reported Bloomberg. Reliance Jio will build customized models for specific uses, he added.