June 2023, when OpenAI CEO Samuel Altman visited India, he remarked that it would be totally hopeless to compete with OpenAI in training foundational models. While he later clarified that he was talking about building that on $10 million, it still left many people compelled to want India to have its own LLM to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Has that time come? In December 2023, Reliance Jio Infocomm Chairperson Akash Ambani was said to have unveiled the BharatGPT programme. This was said to be a collaboration between Reliance Jio and IIT Bombay. There’s said to be an ambition to deliver India-centric, multilingual and multi-modal LLMs. The aim is said to be harnessing the transformative power of generative AI. Akash Ambani was said to emphasize the potential impact of AI on the next decade. He was said to have described it as a force defining innovation across various sectors.
