India, June 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, today launched 'Bharat Gen', India's first-of-its-kind, indigenously developed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based, government-funded, Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages, at the prestigious "BharatGen Summit"-India's largest Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLM summit and hackathon.

Developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) and implemented through TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE at IIT Bombay, BharatGen aims to revolutionize AI development across India's linguistic and cultural spectrum. The i...