Bridging Digital Divide With 'JanAI': How Generative AI Could Be India’s Next Aadhar Or UPI

OPINION: With a tripartite partnership between a proactive government, India's IT industry, and some leading technical institutions like the IITs, JanAI could be an invaluable proposition.

JanAI could be a set of LLMs built as a layer of India Stack, where the focus would be on the offering as a public service.

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By Jaspreet Bindra & Sudhir Tiwari The amazing success of the Indian Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) story is well known. Riding on India Stack, this digitisation at population scale has led to 1.4 billion Indians with a digital biometric identity with Aadhaar, simplified payments at scale, with UPI enabling almost half the world’s digital payments, the world’s largest vaccination campaign, and many other achievements. Innumerable startups have leveraged open APIs of the