Reliance Jio Infocomm, an Indian telecommunications operator, is collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to introduce a homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) model. The company's chairman, Akash Ambani, mentioned that the upcoming AI solution will be named 'Bharat GPT.' The initiative involves a partnership with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay to create generative pre-trained language models tailored for crucial business sectors like telecommunications and retail.

"At present, we have just scratched the surface with large language models and generative AI and the next decade will be defined by these applications", Ambani said. Ambani also highlighted that AI will transform every area of products and services. "We are working very hard to launch AI not only as a vertical inside our organization but also horizontally across all our sectors", he said.

Apart from IIT-Bombay, a consortium of other academic institutes will also be working on the project. "The Bharat GPT consortium, which aims to deliver India-centric multi-lingual and multi-modal GPT/LLMs, is a unique Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative led by IIT Bombay. The consortium consists of other premier academic institutes such as IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore and Bhashini", Ramakrishnan said.

Since October 2022, Reliance Jio Infocomm has been swiftly extending its 5G network through the use of Standalone (SA) architecture. The telecommunications company has successfully rolled out its 5G services in 7,764 cities spanning 36 states in India, as indicated on the company's website. Earlier, Reliance Jio acquired a spectrum combination for 5G, encompassing the 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz, and 26 GHz bands. Notably, Jio stands as the sole Indian operator possessing the 700 MHz low-band spectrum.

Reliance Jio Infocomm previously said it expected to complete the national rollout of 5G by the end of 2023. "We will have nearly one million 5G cells operational in the network by December. In just nine months, Jio 5G is already present in over 96% of the census towns of our country. And we’re on track to cover the entire country by December of this year. This makes Jio 5G the fastest-ever 5G rollout of this scale anywhere in the world", said Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Jio’s parent company Reliance Industries.

Recent reports indicate that Reliance Jio Infocomm's 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) service, known as JioAirFiber, is currently accessible in 514 cities spanning 25 states throughout India. The states where JioAirFiber is available include Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Odisha, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Tripura, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.