Reliance-backed consortium to roll out 'Hanooman' AI models this March
A groundbreaking collaboration between Reliance Industries and India's leading engineering institutions, will unveil the 'Hanooman' series of Indic language models next month. This ChatGPT-like service, a joint venture between Seetha Mahalaxmi Healthcare (SML) and the BharatGPT ecosystem, aims to strengthen India's presence in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. As of now, the segment is primarily dominated by the US and China.
Hanooman's multilingual and multimodal capabilities
Currently, Hanooman AI models can comprehend and communicate in 11 Indian languages, like Hindi, Marathi, and Tamil, with plans to extend to over 20 languages. These models boast a range of 1.5 billion to 40 billion parameters, highlighting their multilingual capabilities. Moreover, Hanooman is designed as a versatile AI powerhouse, generating text, videos, speech, and more in multiple Indian languages. One of the first specialized versions is VizzhyGPT. It is an AI model tailored for healthcare using extensive medical data.
Reliance Jio's custom models
Reliance Jio will make custom models based on Hanooman, for specific use cases. The firm has already started working on Jio Brain. It will be a platform for using AI across a 450 million subscriber network.
Collaborative effort
This project is a combined effort between SML, Reliance's tech division, and the BharatGPT research team led by IIT Bombay, in partnership with seven other prestigious Indian engineering institutes. It is supported by the Centre's science department and closely collaborates with Reliance's telecom and retail operations. Hanooman joins other homegrown Indic language AI models like Krutrim from Ola, SaravamAI's OpenHathi, and IIT Madras' Airavata model in India's pursuit to become a major AI contender.
