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India Names Eight Teams to Build Sovereign AI, Taps IIT Bombay’s BharatGen for 1-Trillion-Parameter Model

Fresh funding with expanded compute aims to accelerate multilingual, sector-specific models under the IndiaAI Mission.

Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that an AI governance framework will be released within the next 10 days, hopefully before September 28 (ANI)
IndiaAI Mission grants Rs 1,500 cr boost; BharatGen bags largest share of Rs 989 cr
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Overview

  • The government selected IIT Bombay Consortium–BharatGen, Fractal Analytics, Tech Mahindra, Avataar AI, Zeinteiq Aitech Innovations, Genloop Intelligence, NeuroDX (Intellihealth), and Shodh AI, bringing the roster to 12 participants.
  • BharatGen received ₹988.6 crore, the largest allocation, to develop a foundational model with one trillion parameters focused on Indic use cases in agriculture, finance, legal, health, and education.
  • India has onboarded roughly 38,000 GPUs and plans to add about 10,000 more toward a target near 50,000 by end-2025, while over 500 AI data labs are planned, including 200 by March 2026 and 570 within two years.
  • An AI governance framework is set for release within about 10 days as non-prescriptive guidance, with provisions for converting safety-critical elements into law over time.
  • IBM and BharatGen announced a strategic collaboration to combine IBM’s data, training and governance tools with BharatGen’s sovereign multimodal models for domain-specific deployments.