India launched BharatGen, an initiative to make generative AI available to citizens in different Indian languages, with Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh asserting that it was the world's first State-funded project of its kind.

• The project developed by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS),
• The initiative will create generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text and multimodal content in various Indian languages.
• The initiative was launched by Principal Scientific Advisor A K Sood, Department of Science and Technology Secretary Abhay Karandikar, Department of Telecommunications Secretary Neeraj Mittal among others.