Reliance's Hanooman: An AI model backed by Mukesh Ambani speeds toward a March India rollout

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A consortium backed by Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Industries Ltd. and Indias top engineering schools aim to launch its first ChatGPT-style service next month, a big step in the countrys ambitions to become a player in the field of artificial intelligence...

The BharatGPT group, encompassing an arm of Indias most valuable company and eight affiliated universities, offered a sneak peek of the large language model Tuesday during a technology conference in Mumbai..

In a video played before delegates, a motorcycle mechanic in southern India queried an AI bot in his native Tamil, a banker conversed with the tool in Hindi, and a developer in Hyderabad used it to write computer code...

It developed the model in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology universities including in Bombay, backed by wireless carrier Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. and Indias government...

A swath of startups such as Sarvam and Krutrim, backed by prominent VC investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners and billionaire Vinod Khoslas fund, are also building open-sourced AI models customized for India..

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