BharatGen: Inside India's Government-Backed Multimodal Generative AI Initiative
Headed by IIT Bombay and funded by DST, BharatGen is training foundation models dedicated to Indian culture, languages, and citizen public services.
A Public Sector AI Consortium
BharatGen brings together premier academic institutions including IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIIT Hyderabad to develop sovereign text, speech, and vision foundation models.
Citizen-Centric Government AI Use Cases
Initial deployment targets include agrarian advisories in 14 languages, legal judgment summaries for district courts, and voice-enabled citizen service delivery across rural panchayats.
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