New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Shashi Shekhar Vempati, former CEO of Prasar Bharati, has been appointed as an Independent Director on the board of BharatGen Technology Foundation.

Vempati, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, is currently the Co-founder of DeepTech for Bharat Foundation (AI4India.Org).

BharatGen Technology Foundation is the newly incorporated entity under which the BharatGen Sovereign AI project will be developed.

The BharatGen Project, led by IIT Bombay, was recently awarded over Rs 900 crore in funding from the IndiaAI Mission of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to build India's sovereign foundational models for artificial intelligence.

The new Section 8 company, BharatGen Technology Foundation, was incorp...