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Ministry of Science & Technology launched ‘Bharat Gen’ at the BharatGen Summit

Posted 03 Jun 2025

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BharatGen Summit is India’s largest Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Model (LLM) summit and hackathon.

About Bharat Gen

  • Public-Private Partnership Initiative: 
    • It is India’s first-of-its-kind, indigenously developed AI-based Multimodal LLM for Indian languages.
    • Launched as a non-profit company with funding from the Department of Science and Technology.
    • Developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
    • Being implemented through Technology Innovation Hubs (TIH) Foundation for IoT (Internet of Things) and IoE (Internet of Everything) at IIT Bombay.
  • 4 primary goals:
    • Creation of Bharat-centric foundational LLM models: Focus on Indian languages, culture and tradition
    • Bharat Data Sagar: To centralise high-quality Bharatiya data necessary for model building
    • Startup Ecosystem and Innovation: empowering entrepreneurs with tools, mentorship, and collaboration to create innovative AI applications for India.
    • Skilling and Capacity Building: Strengthen India's AI talent pool through fellowships, hackathons, and courses, positioning it as a global innovation hub.

About Multimodal LLM 

  • Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) are large language models trained on a combination of text and non-text data, including images, audio, and video.
  • These models use machine learning to understand and interpret human language and other complex data types.
  • Multimodal LLMs surpass the limitations of unimodal models (such as earlier versions of ChatGPT), which often struggle to produce cohesive responses when inputs span different modalities.
  • Tags :
  • NM-ICPS
  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • BharatGen
  • TIH Foundation
  • Non-Profit Company
  • Multimodal LLM
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