Tata Comms Teams Up With CoRover To Make AI Solutions For Businesses, Govt Bodies

Tata Communications has partnered with one of the leading players in conversational AI space, CoRover.ai, to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for Indian businesses and government outfits.

The telecom service provider said the two companies will develop Sovereign AI, which is defined as a country’s ability to employ AI using its own infrastructure, data, workforce and business networks.

In this partnership, Tata Communications’ Sovereign AI Cloud Platform and CoRover’s human-centric conversational AI technologies, including BharatGPT, will be employed to deliver GenAI-powered solutions designed to meet the unique needs of India’s evolving digital landscape, said the company in a statement.

“CoRover is proud to be the first Indian company to launch Sovereign AI for India,” said Ankush Sabharwal, founder and chief executive of CoRover.ai.

“Tata Communications’ expertise in sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform along with CoRover.ai’s industry-first conversational AI capabilities will be a major stride in building a robust AI ecosystem that’s tailored not only to meet current demands but anticipate future needs,” vice-president and global head of cloud and edge business, Neelakantan Venkataraman, said.

Founded in 2016 by Ankush Sabharwal, Kunal Bhakhri, Manav Gandotra and Rahul Ranjan, CoRover.ai is a conversational AI-based startup that has built an LLM called BharatGP.

It offers AI virtual assistants (chatbots, voicebots, videobots) to its clients, including IRCTC, LIC, IGL, KSRTC, Indian Navy (GRSE), Max Life Insurance, NPCI, BHIM-UPI, Mahindra, and the Government of India. These bots can take command and respond in over 14 Indian languages. The startup claims to have a user base of over 1 Bn.

Tata Communications was looking to launch an AI Studio platform-as-a-service by March, which would offer services, including data management, multimodal retrieval, augmented generation (search using text, photo, video, etc) and machine learning operations.

Updated at 04:25 PM

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