Supporting GenAI Use Cases in India, Jio Platforms Collaborates with Confluent

Nitin Konde, Varun Bhardwaj

13 Feb 2025 — 2 min read

Jio Platforms Partners with Confluent to Support GenAI Use Cases in India

Jio Platforms Limited and Confluent, a data streaming business based in California, have teamed together to promote the growth of real-time and GenAI use cases in India. Jio Cloud Services will offer Confluent Cloud as part of the deal, enabling companies in India to begin using data streaming without any problems. As data streaming is essential to enabling real-time analytics and GenAI developments, this partnership is expected to strengthen India's digital infrastructure, an official statement said. Data streaming is essential for companies to keep ahead of consumer trends, including advances in artificial intelligence, as Confluent is poised for rapid transformation in India, according to Kiran Thomas, president and CEO of Jio Platforms Limited.

How the Collaboration will Operate?

Confluent will handle all of the essential components of streaming services on Jio Cloud Services, including connecting, processing, controlling, and streaming data. Offering enterprise-grade security and governance to safely handle massive amounts of data, Confluent Platform will be made available as a managed service to Indian consumers and businesses, including the public sector.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently urged international cooperation to create governance and standards that preserve common values at the first AI Action Summit, which was held in Paris. Given its diversity, India is creating its own large language model (LLM).

We are creating AI apps for the general public's benefit. The PM asserted, "We have the largest pool of AI talent in the world." Ashwini Vaishnaw, the union minister, recently announced that India intends to develop its own fundamental AI model over the next ten months, revealing the country's attempt to create its own LLM.

Government Offering a Massive Support to Develop AI

Vaishnaw added that in the coming days, the government will provide entities nationwide with 18,000 top-notch GPU-based computing facilities for AI development, allowing the creation of the AI model. While the nation's leader emphasised the advantages AI can offer humanity, the Indian Economic Survey 2024–25 emphasised the enormous threat AI poses to the nation's labour market in terms of employment disruption. According to the Economic Survey, which cited studies from the International Monetary Fund, the International Labour Organisation, Goldman Sachs, and other organisations, AI-led automation may present difficulties for the Indian labour market and economy.

About Confluent

The data streaming platform Confluent is leading the way in a radically new class of data infrastructure that moves data. The core platform for data in motion is Confluent's cloud-native solution, which is intended to act as the intelligent connective tissue that allows real-time data from many sources to continuously flow throughout the company. Confluent helps businesses achieve the new business imperative of moving to complex, real-time, software-driven backend operations while providing rich, digital front-end customer experiences.