Bharat Gen Initiative

Union Science and Technology Ministry launched ‘Bharat Gen’ which is India’s first-of-its-kind, indigenously developed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based, government-funded, Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages.

• It was launched at the prestigious “BharatGen Summit”—India’s largest Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLM summit and hackathon.

• It was developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) and implemented through TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE at IIT Bombay.

• BharatGen aims to revolutionize AI development across India’s linguistic and cultural spectrum.

• The initiative is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and brings together a robust consortium of leading academic institutions, experts, and innovators.