India, Feb. 12 -- BharatGen, a sovereign AI initiative supported under the IndiaAI Mission, has announced the launch of BharatGen Param2, a 17-billion-parameter model supporting 22 Indian languages. The multilingual Mixture of Experts (MoE) foundational model has been developed in India and is scheduled to go live at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

Param2 17B has been trained extensively on Indian datasets and optimised for multiple Indic languages. The model is intended to support applications across sectors including enterprise, governance, education, healthcare and agriculture.

At the summit, BharatGen will present sector-focused demonstrations developed in collaboration with government and industry partners.

In governance, the ini...