Dr. Jitendra Singh hails "BharatGen" as India’s first sovereign multilingual and multimodal AI driven Large Language Model;

Key Points

1. BharatGen is India’s first sovereign multilingual and multimodal AI driven Large Language Model.
2. The project is supported by ₹1,293 Crore Govt Support to build India’s Sovereign AI Stack.
3. BharatGen supports 22+ Indian Languages with Text, Speech and Document-Vision Models.
4. The project is under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) of the Department of Science and Technology.
5. ₹235 crore is channelled through the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay.
6. BharatGen includes Bharat Data Sagar, an ambitious data initiative for India's digital knowledge resources.
7. Param-1 is a foundational text model of 2.9 billion parameters trained on 7.5 trillion tokens.
8. Shrutam is a 30-million-parameter Automatic Speech Recognition system.
9. Sooktam is a 150-million-parameter Text-to-Speech model available in nine Indic languages.
10. Patram is India’s first document-vision model with seven billion parameters, trained on 2.5 billion tokens.