Under India's AI initiative, BharatGen Grabs Largest Portion of Rs. 1,500 Crore from IndiaAI Mission, Acquiring Rs. 988.6 Crore
The Tribune, in a recent press release, announced the launch of BharatGen – India's first government-backed multimodal Sovereign AI flagship initiative. The press release was syndicated and published by The Tribune, issued under an arrangement with Newsvoir.
The BharatGen consortium includes esteemed institutions such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), IIT Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIM Indore, IIIT Delhi, and IIT Kharagpur. Their roles involve technology development, research, manufacturing, and project implementation in the field of nuclear technology, as well as the expansion of AI systems across all 22 scheduled Indian languages.
The Hon'ble Union Minister of Electronic & IT, Ashwini Vaishnaw, made a formal announcement about BharatGen in Delhi, India. The Minister also revealed that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has awarded funding of Rs. 988.6 crore to BharatGen.
BharatGen has already made significant strides, with the launch of Param-1, a bilingual LLM with 2.9 billion parameters, pretrained on 5 trillion tokens in English and Hindi. The next phase of BharatGen will see the expansion to multilingual and multimodal AI systems. The models will be trained on advanced supercomputing clusters and are expected to support real-world applications across key areas such as agriculture, governance, finance, healthcare, and education.
The funding will also boost the development of India-focused technologies like text-to-speech, speech recognition, and vision-language tools. The Tribune assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, completeness, or content of the press release, and it publishes the press release as received without any modifications. No editorial responsibility for the press release was taken by PTI.
The press release comes from a source other than The Tribune's own reporting or editorial team, and it is sourced from a syndicated feed. The Tribune does not take any advertisements. This marks a significant step towards India's digital transformation and its ambition to become a global leader in AI technology.
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