OpenAI and Meta Seek AI Alliance With India’s Reliance

OpenAI executives in recent months have spoken multiple times with their counterparts at Reliance Industries, which owns the world’s largest oil refinery, India’s top wireless carrier and numerous retailers, about a potential product and sales partnership, according to two people who spoke to executives at both companies. OpenAI wants Reliance businesses, such as wireless carrier Jio, to distribute or sell its artificial intelligence, which could include ChatGPT, these people said.

OpenAI may have competition: Meta Platforms, which previously invested billions of dollars in Jio, has its own ambitions to work with Reliance on new artificial intelligence businesses, said a Meta employee who is involved in the effort.