Next month, the BharatGPT group—supported by a network of premier engineering institutions and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries—is scheduled to unveil "Hanooman." Reliance Jio Infocomm, the national government, and eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are working together to build the ChatGPT-like service.
"Hanooman," which focuses on industries including healthcare, finance, education, and governance, is made to communicate in eleven regional languages. It claims to provide the Indian public with multimodal AI capabilities, such as text-to-text, text-to-speech, and text-to-video conversions.
Major stakeholders from a variety of industries are involved in the first-ever private-public collaboration in India, known as the BharatGPT ecosystem. This partnership, which is led by IIT Bombay and supported by Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML), Reliance Jio, and the Department of Science and Technology, consists of seven additional IITs.
By addressing the various language and cultural quirks of India, the partnership hopes to make use of artificial intelligence's enormous potential and increase the accessibility of technology for a larger proportion of society. With intentions to expand its skills even further, "Hanooman" distinguishes out for being able to provide services in 22 Indian languages. The core language models of the model, which have sizes of up to 40 billion parameters, will be made available to the public.
In addition to improving accessibility, the approach seeks to stimulate innovation in AI applications across important industries. SML is investigating joint ventures with BFSI companies, medical facilities, and developers of mobile applications in order to deliver model-as-a-service or develop customised models through the improvement of the 'Hanooman' series.
