BharatGen: AI by India, for India
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Press coverage
Inc42From LLMs to verticalisation: India's sovereign AI stack takes shape
24 February 2026Read on Inc42
Business StandardEverything to know about BharatGen, the AI model for Indian languages2 June 2025Read
MoneycontrolHow BharatGen is building one of the earliest population-scale LLMs18 February 2025Read
202650 articlesShowHide
- Monash joins global alliance to advance sovereign and trustworthy AI7 October 2026
- Project Tapestry gains momentum for sovereign AI during UNGA week5 October 2026
- This IIT Bombay professor is building AI around the languages Indians actually speak23 September 2026
- Global organisations announce a five-year goal to help more than three billion people use AI in their own language and voice21 September 2026
- Our first milestone for Project Tapestry10 September 2026
- Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan named a 2026 Goalkeepers Champion9 September 2026
- What we learnt building a voice agent on two frontier Indian AI models8 September 2026
- 'India doesn't need the biggest AI models; it needs the most useful ones': BharatGen CEO Rishi Bal1 September 2026
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- ET World Leaders Forum 2026: tech leaders call for stronger AI governance to offset cyber threats25 August 2026
- India isn't behind in AI adoption, but adoption and ownership are different: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan16 August 2026
- 'Building AI models from the ground up makes you competitive in the long run': BharatGen CEO Rishi Bal10 August 2026
- BharatGen CEO on why models alone can't help India gain in the AI race29 July 2026
- IIT Bombay, NSDL Payments Bank and BharatGen sign MoU for AI and cybersecurity29 July 2026
- Sarvam and BharatGen offer AI cheaper than DeepSeek. Can they sustain it?15 July 2026
- Can India leverage talent to catch up in the AI race? Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan on the Emerging podcast9 July 2026
- AIM 100: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan among India's most influential people shaping AI in 20266 July 2026
- The BharatGen story: from tumse na ho payega to karke dikhayenge6 July 2026
- NII signs an MoU with IIT Bombay and BharatGen Technology Foundation on large language models2 July 2026
- Welcome to Project Tapestry, BharatGen!29 June 2026
- India must build foundational AI models or risk becoming a mere consumer: BharatGen26 June 2026
- BharatGen joins AI Alliance's Project Tapestry to build sovereign AI22 June 2026
- IIT Bombay showcases BharatGen, AI that thinks in India's own languages16 June 2026
- Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan receives the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam HPC and AI Award 202610 June 2026
- Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan named in the AI-50 list3 June 2026
- BharatGen and two L&T arms to build India's sovereign AI compute platform23 April 2026
- Centre funds 12 AI projects for sovereign models; BharatGen gets the largest allocation4 April 2026
- BharatGen signs MoU with IIT Bombay and C-DAC to advance sovereign AI for India's linguistic diversity31 March 2026
- BharatGen and L&T forge sovereign AI compute alliance for India3 March 2026
- India's AI models take on global giants with a potent weapon: local languages27 February 2026
- IIT Bombay marks strong presence at AI Impact Summit, inks multiple MoUs25 February 2026
- Five new sovereign AI models signal India's bold leap at the AI Summit23 February 2026
- Andhra Pradesh ties up with IBM, BharatGen and NxtGen for Swadeshi AI stack21 February 2026
- Maharashtra, IIT Bombay and BharatGen Technology Foundation ink pact to boost AI and digital governance20 February 2026
- India's focus shifting from AI adoption to production: IIT Prof Ramakrishnan20 February 2026
- BharatGen unveils Param2 17B multilingual MoE model at India AI Impact Summit: all about it19 February 2026
- BharatGen unveils Param2 17B multilingual MoE model under sovereign AI push18 February 2026
- BharatGen and Amrita institutions partner to build sovereign AI for healthcare18 February 2026
- India Today Group unveils Sutra, an AI news anchor built with BharatGen, at the India AI Impact Summit17 February 2026
- Dr Jitendra Singh at BharatGen's session at the India AI Impact Summit17 February 2026
- After Param2, BharatGen unveils Patram, Sooktam and Shrutam AI models at India AI Impact Summit17 February 2026
- India hungry for its own AI, says head of BharatGen17 February 2026
- India seeks role in shaping AI future with summit of tech chiefs16 February 2026
- China's DeepSeek moment to India's sovereign AI: what BharatGen's CEO said16 February 2026
- 'Most real-world use cases don't need trillion-parameter AI': BharatGen CEO Rishi Bal on the Param2 launch16 February 2026
- How BharatGen is building India's sovereign AI future14 February 2026
- IndiaAI Mission shortlists 12 teams for indigenous AI models: Minister updates Rajya Sabha13 February 2026
- India AI Impact Summit 2026: BharatGen's sovereign AI model explained13 February 2026
- Building Bharat's brain: the rise of indigenous LLMs for India's AI sovereignty12 February 2026
- BharatGen to finish AI models on 22 languages by month-end: Jitendra Singh5 February 2026
- PM chairs roundtable with Indian AI start-ups8 January 2026
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- IIT Bombay steps into the future with its own AI firm8 December 2025
- BharatGen hits key milestones: inside India's advancing sovereign AI effort26 November 2025
- Dr Jitendra Singh hails BharatGen on a visit to IIT Bombay25 November 2025
- India must push adoption of indigenous AI models: Rishi Bal19 November 2025
- BharatGen's Ganesh Ramakrishnan spotlights a sovereign AI ecosystem built from the first byte12 November 2025
- Voice of India23 October 2025
- BharatGen's mission: AI in Indian languages, for Indian needs4 October 2025
- BharatGen and the pursuit of sovereign, scalable AI for India26 September 2025
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- BharatGen bets on small models to hit big AI goals24 September 2025
- BharatGen: beyond a model, India's AI Manhattan Project in the making23 September 2025
- BharatGen building indigenous AI stack rooted in Indian language and culture: IIT Bombay's Ganesh Ramakrishnan19 September 2025
- IBM and BharatGen partner to boost sovereign AI adoption in India18 September 2025
- BharatGen is India's highest-funded AI entity after receiving $112 million under IndiaAI Mission18 September 2025
- AI crucial to growing India's overall ecosystem, says BharatGen's Rishi Bal18 September 2025
- BharatGen AI to support all 22 listed languages by June 20267 August 2025
- IIT professor on BharatGen's challenges in building AI models for Indian languages29 June 2025
- Ganesh Ramakrishnan's BharatGen vision: inclusive, diverse, self-reliant11 June 2025
- IIIT Hyderabad launches Patram, India's first vision-language foundational model for docs4 June 2025
- Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh at the BharatGen Summit 20252 June 2025
- Key step in democratising AI: IIT Bombay releases 16 datasets on AIKosh1 June 2025
- India's many languages pose a challenge to the development of its large language model26 May 2025
- BharatGen launches Param1, India's foundational LLM built from scratch19 May 2025
- This government-backed AI effort is India's real answer to DeepSeek24 February 2025
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- Launch of BharatGen: reply to a question in Parliament18 December 2024
- Six interesting Indian AI models from 20245 December 2024
- Top 10 Indian AI models that made history in 202416 November 2024
- Two Hyderabad research institutes lead country's AI revolution with BharatGen's e-VikrAI25 October 2024
- BharatGen geared to put a desi spin on ChatGPT, IIT-Bombay plays role4 October 2024
- India launches BharatGen project for generative AI in local languages1 October 2024
- Launch of BharatGen, the first government-supported multimodal large language model effort30 September 2024
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Rishi Bal, Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan and the team on why India needs its own AI models, and how we build them. The playlist grows as new talks are published.
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Building sovereign AI for a billion people
Rishi Bal, CEO
Beyond jugaad: what India needs for its own DeepSeek moment
Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Will India have its own AI?
Rishi Bal, CEO
Can India compete with ChatGPT?
Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan
The AI race is no longer between companies. It's between countries
Rishi Bal, CEO
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