BharatGen: Multimodel Large Language Model Initiative

Recently, the Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India has launched an initiative “BharatGen” world’s first government-funded multimodal language model.

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Key Highlights

• BharatGen is designed to revolutionize public service delivery through foundational models in language, speech and computer vision.
• The initiative is being implemented by the IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
• It is a Multimodal Large Language Model project focused on creating generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text and multimodal content in various Indian languages.
• It aims to address India’s broader socio-cultural and linguistic diversity while ensuring that generative AI reaches all segments of society.
• It will focus on developing processes for collecting and curating India-centric data, ensuring that the country’s diverse languages, dialects, and cultural contexts are accurately represented.

 

Key features of the initiative

• Multilingual and Multimodal Nature of Foundation Models
• Building and training based on India-centric datasets.
• Open-Source Platform