Jio Platforms Is Reportedly Preparing Its AI Playbook for India
The Economic Times reported that Jio Platforms is now specializing in disrupting the AI house in India by providing inexpensive entry to AI instruments and agentic functions to enterprises. Citing an unnamed senior govt of the corporate, the publication claimed that Jio is working with Nvidia and different tech giants to additionally provide {hardware} help to run AI inference.
Jio Platforms reportedly plans that after it’s empanelled into the India AI Mission, a Rs. 10,300 crore challenge by the federal government, it would provide GPU-as-a-service to startups and researchers “on the best value on the earth.” The firm has reportedly partnered with Nvidia to safe its Blackwell GPUs for this.
The govt additionally reportedly highlighted that Jio is presently engaged on all three avenues of AI infrastructure — the system, cloud service, and high-speed broadband networks — to supply inexpensive AI to enterprises and people.
Explaining the financials of the GPU-focused service, the manager instructed the Economic Times, “The AI Mission is a authorities initiative to supply GPUs at a subsidised value. For occasion, assuming if the value is Rs 25 per GPU hour, the federal government will subsidise Rs 5-10 out of that. We (Jio and others) as distributors will compete to supply decrease costs to Rs 25.”
Notably, earlier this yr, Jio Platforms introduced Jio Brain, a 5G-integrated AI and machine studying (ML) platform for enterprises. The govt reportedly stated that the corporate can also be on the lookout for methods to monetise the providing.
The AI house in India is fragmented in the intervening time the place totally different gamers are providing totally different companies. While Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft have been attempting to enter the house with built-in AI companies, the enterprise pricing of their merchandise is claimed to be fairly steep leading to sluggish adoption of the expertise.
If Jio can provide companies the place it supplies the front-end AI instruments, the backend LLMs, in addition to cloud companies to run information processing, all at aggressive pricing, it might speed up the speed of adoption of AI amongst enterprises.