(Reuters) – OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India’s Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings within the country, technology news website The Information reported on Saturday.
A possibility being discussed involved a relationship between Reliance Jio and OpenAI to distribute ChatGPT, in keeping with The Information, which cited two sources acquainted with the matter.
OpenAI also discussed with employees cutting the ChatGPT subscription price to as little as several dollars as a substitute of $20 a month, in keeping with the report, which added that it shouldn’t be clear if OpenAI has discussed the thought of price reduction with Reliance.
Reliance has discussed selling OpenAI’s models to its enterprise customers through an application programming interface or API, The Information report added, saying that the Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate also discussed hosting and running OpenAI models locally, so the info of local customers might be kept inside India.
Particularly, Reliance has discussed running the Meta and OpenAI models in a three-gigawatt data center that the corporate is planning to construct, which it has said is the biggest data center on this planet, positioned in town of Jamnagar in Gujarat.
Meta declined to comment on The Information report. OpenAI and Reliance didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment on the report.
Reliance Industries is one among the biggest conglomerates in India, engaged in petrochemicals, refining, oil and gas exploration, telecommunications, retail and green energy.
(Reporting by Bipasha Dey and Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; editing by Diane Craft and Will Dunham)