New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The government has selected eight more companies to develop large language models (LLMs) under the India AI Mission, bringing the total number of participants to 12, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced in New Delhi on Thursday. Speaking at a pre-event for the AI Impact Summit scheduled for February 2026, Vaishnaw revealed that IIT Bombay Consortium-BharatGen, Fractal Analytics, Tech Mahindra, Avataar AI, Zeinteiq Aitech Innovations, Genloop Intelligence, NeuroDX (Intellihealth), and Shodh AI have been selected to join the programme. The announcement comes as the Centre ramps up its artificial intelligence capabilities, with the new entrants joining four previously selected firms-Sarvam AI, Gnani AI, Soket AI, and G...