About
BharatGen is a consortium under the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay and India's first government-funded multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) initiative for Indian languages, supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). Officially launched in October 2024, BharatGen is developing India's sovereign AI ecosystem with foundational AI models fluent in understanding and speaking 22+ Indian languages, dialects, and cultural nuances. The initiative is building multimodal generative AI models across text, speech, and computer vision to revolutionize public service delivery, citizen engagement, and digital access across governance, agriculture, education, healthcare, and legal sectors. BharatGen is creating the world's largest India-centric dataset (Bharat Data Sagar) focusing on underrepresented Indian data tied to languages, culture, history, and philosophy. The organization is also investing in talent development through MTech/PhD funding, AI courses, hackathons, and workshops to position India as a global AI leader.
Mission
To develop and deploy advanced AI solutions that empower every Indian to connect, communicate, and innovate effortlessly by building India's first sovereign, multilingual, and culturally-rooted artificial intelligence ecosystem that serves as a public good for governance, agriculture, education, healthcare, and social equity across the nation.