BharatGen: Multimodal Large Language Model

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched ‘BharatGen’, India’s first indigenously developed Government funded AI based Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian Languages ​​at the IndiaGen Summit in New Delhi.

About BharatGen

• Introduction: It is India’s first indigenously developed Government funded Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian Languages.
  • BharatGen Mission is a national initiative funded by the Government of India to indigenously develop a multimodal, multilingual, and culturally relevant Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Large Language Model (LLM)
• Objective: It aims to provide the capability to understand and create multimodal data such as text, speech and images in Indian languages ​​to make AI technology accessible to the diverse linguistic communities of India.
• Implementation: It is being implemented by the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) under the Department of Science and Technology (DST) led by IIT Bombay.
• Partners involved: Leading academic institutions like IIT Bombay, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIM Indore and IIT Madras are the partners.

Key Features

• Multimodal capability: Capable of understanding and generating various data types such as text, speech and images
• Multilingual support: It aims to provide seamless AI solutions in 22 Indian languages ​​such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi etc.
• Cultural relevance: Design in accordance with Indian cultural contexts and local knowledge sets it apart from global AI models.
• Ethical and inclusive AI: Unbiased and fair to all communities, based on principles of ethics.
• Diverse applications: Suitable for providing services in local languages ​​in areas such as education, health, administration, agriculture.
• Open Source Platform: It has been developed as an open-source platform so that it can be easily used and modified by researchers, startups and industry.
• This initiative focuses on promoting generative AI research and development in India so that the country can play a leading role in this field.