Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited is preparing to launch an AI chatbot named ‘Hanuman’ next month. The company is collaborating with 8 affiliated universities for this initiative, collectively referred to as the ‘Bharat GPT Group.’ The AI chatbot was showcased during a technology conference on Tuesday.

During the presentation, a motorcycle mechanic from South India conversed with the AI bot in his native language, Tamil. Meanwhile, a banker engaged in conversation with the tool in Hindi, and a developer from Hyderabad utilized it for writing computer code.

Chairman Ganesh Ramakrishnan of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at IIT Bombay mentioned that Hanuman possesses speech-to-text capability. He stated, “Reliance Jio will also create custom models for specific users using this unique style of LLM (Large Language Model).”

Jio is also working on Jio Brain, a platform using AI on its network of nearly 45 crore customers. This is crucial as millions in a population of 1.4 billion may not be able to read or write.

Two months ago, Jio’s Chairman, Akash Ambani, revealed that the company is considering launching its own operating system for televisions. In addition, Reliance Jio is gearing up to launch products and services in various sectors such as commerce, communication, and devices.

The company launched its Air Fiber service on September 19th this year, coinciding with Ganesh Chaturthi. Initially available in 8 cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune – Jio charged a fee of ₹1000 for Air Fiber installation. Now, the service is available in 3939 towns.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on extensive datasets using deep learning algorithms, which is why they are referred to as “large.” They excel not only in translating and predicting but also in generating text and other content.

Large language models, also known as neural networks (NNs), are computing systems inspired by the human brain. Large language models can be trained for many tasks like understanding protein structures, writing software code etc.