India unveiled ‘Bharat Gen’, its first indigenously developed multimodal large language model (LLM) supporting 22 Indian languages. The initiative aims to promote ethical, inclusive, and culturally rooted AI applications across sectors such as healthcare, education, agriculture, and citizen services.

Key Points:

• Bharat Gen is designed as a national mission to create an AI model that integrates text, speech, and images, supporting 22 Indian languages with a focus on Indian ethos and values.
• The AI model will enhance telemedicine by enabling communication in local languages, improving healthcare access in remote areas.
• Bharat Gen supports the National Education Policy 2020 by encouraging interdisciplinary education and aims to improve government grievance redressal systems through multilingual feedback integration.
• The initiative boosts innovation by supporting thousands of agri-tech startups and engaging student innovators through events like the Generative AI Hackathon 2025.
• Developed under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems and implemented by IIT Bombay’s TIH Foundation, the project involves multiple academic institutions and experts backed by the Department of Science and Technology.