Bharat GenAI:
The Ministry of Science & Technology informed that Bharat GenAI Large Language Model will complete text models in all 22 scheduled languages this month
- BharatGen is the first government supported national initiative to develop a range of sovereign foundational AI models tailored to Indian languages and societal contexts.
- BharatGen aims to revolutionize AI development across India’s linguistic and cultural spectrum.
- It spans multiple modalities, including text (via Large Language Models), speech (Text-to-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition), and vision-language systems.
- It is developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems(NM-ICPS) and implemented through TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE at IIT Bombay.
- It is being executed through a network of 25 Technology Innovation Hubs (TIHs), four of which have been upgraded to Technology Translational Research Parks (TTRPs).
- The Mission’s four pillars include technology development, entrepreneurship, human resource development, and international collaboration.
- It has four key Features:
- Multilingual and multimodal models
- Bhartiya dataset-based training
- Open-source platform
- Generative AI research ecosystem in India
