Aiming to become a prominent player in the field of artificial intelligence, a consortium supported by Reliance Industries Ltd, owned by Mukesh Ambani, and India's leading engineering schools is all set to launch its first ChatGPT-style.

This development is a significant step towards India's ambitions to excel in the field of AI.

Key Highlights

BharatGPT, in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology universities and backed by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, has developed an AI model called Hanooman.
This model is set to advance India's AI technology in various fields including healthcare, governance, financial services, and education.
Hanooman is designed to work via 11 local languages and will provide speech-to-text capabilities to its users, aiming to make it more user-friendly.
Reliance Jio will also build customised models specific to certain uses. The company is currently working on Jio Brain, an AI platform that aims to serve its network of about 450 million subscribers.
Other startups such as Sarvam and Krutrim, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Vinod Khosla's fund, are also developing open-sourced AI models for India.
LLMs, or large language models, are systems that learn from vast quantities of data and generate natural-sounding responses.
These models harness generative AI, which is a newer type of artificial intelligence made popular by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

About ChatGPT

OpenAI developed ChatGPT which is a chatbot and launched on November 30, 2022.
It uses a large language model that allows users to guide conversations towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. At each conversation stage, known as prompt engineering, successive prompts and replies are considered as context.
ChatGPT is built using GPT-3.5 or GPT-4, proprietary generative pre-trained transformer models developed by OpenAI.
These models use transformer architecture created by Google and have been fine-tuned for conversational purposes using a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.
Initially, ChatGPT was released as a research preview, but due to its popularity, OpenAI now operates the service on a freemium model.
Users can access the GPT-3.5-based version for free, while paid subscribers have access to the more advanced GPT-4-based version and priority access to newer features under the name "ChatGPT Plus".
Other tech giants such as Google, Baidu, and Meta are also developing their competitive products, including Bard, Ernie Bot, and LLaMA.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has launched Bing Chat, which is based on OpenAI's GPT-4. However, some observers have expressed concerns that such programs could displace human intelligence, fuel misinformation, and enable plagiarism.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI organization based in the United States, which consists of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc. registered in Delaware. The main objective of the organization is to conduct research on artificial intelligence and develop AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is safe and beneficial. AGI is defined as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at economically valuable tasks".
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by a group of individuals including Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, and Vicki Cheung, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as initial board members.
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI Global LLC.
Sam Altman is currently serving as the CEO of OpenAI.