India, June 5 -- The BharatGen team from IIIT-Hyderabad and IIT-Bombay has launched Patram 7B-Instruct, the country's first vision-language foundational model built specifically for document understanding. The announcement was made at the BharatGen National Summit held in New Delhi on 2 June 2025.

Patram-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion parameter multimodal AI model capable of reading, interpreting, and responding to queries about complex documents, including scanned papers, photographed forms, and handwritten notes. Unlike traditional models trained primarily on Western datasets, Patram is tailored for real-world Indian documents with varied formats, languages, and layouts.

This model is part of the larger BharatGen initiative, which is supp...