India, June 3 -- Union minister Jitendra Singh has launched the state-backed multimodal large language model (LLM) for Indian languages.

Unlike traditional LLMs that predominantly take text as input, multimodal AI models can process various types of data, including text, images, audio and video.

Speaking at the BharatGen Summit, Singh described BharatGen as a "national mission to create AI that is ethical, inclusive, multilingual, and deeply rooted in Indian values and ethos." The platform integrates inputs such as text, speech, and image and offers AI solutions in 22 Indian languages.

"This initiative will empower critical sectors such as healthcare, education, agriculture and governance, delivering region-specific AI solutions that u...