OpenAI and Meta Platforms have reportedly held separate discussions with India’s Reliance Industries regarding potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, according to a report from The Information on Saturday.
One possibility under consideration involves a partnership between Reliance Jio and OpenAI to distribute ChatGPT in India. Additionally, OpenAI has reportedly discussed lowering the subscription price of ChatGPT to a few dollars per month, although it is unclear if this price reduction is part of the talks with Reliance.
Reliance Industries is also exploring selling OpenAI’s models to its enterprise customers via an application programming interface (API) and has discussed hosting and running OpenAI models locally to ensure data from Indian customers remains within the country. The conglomerate has expressed interest in using a planned three-gigawatt data center, which would be the largest in the world, located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, to run both OpenAI and Meta’s AI models.
Meta has declined to comment on the report, and neither OpenAI nor Reliance have provided immediate responses.
Reliance Industries, led by Mukesh Ambani, is one of India’s largest conglomerates, with operations spanning petrochemicals, refining, telecommunications, retail, and green energy.
