JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

Summary

JioStar built a conversational video and cricket-stat discovery assistant into JioHotstar using the OpenAI API, letting viewers speak naturally to find movies, shows, highlights and cricket statistics across more than 15 languages. Chief Architect Vijay Seshadri discussed building the experience in about eight weeks, along with lessons on evaluations and taking AI from demo to production. The source text is cut off before it details those lessons in full.

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