Mumbai, Nov. 26 -- Union Minister of State for Science & Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh praised BharatGen, calling it India's first sovereign multilingual and multimodal Large Language Model (LLM), during his visit to IIT Bombay.

BharatGen is being built as a national AI infrastructure supporting over 22 Indian languages across text, speech, and document-vision formats. The project aligns with India's push for indigenous deep-tech and culturally rooted AI systems.

The project is funded with Rs 235 crore under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) programme through IIT Bombay's Technology Innovation Hub.

It also includes Bharat Data Sagar, a sovereign dataset repository aimed at strengthening India's ...