BharatGen tops Indian AI funding with Rs 9.88 billion government support

BharatGen, a non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) organisation based at IIT Bombay, has secured Rs 9.88 billion ($112 million) from the Indian government under the IndiaAI Mission.

This makes it the most highly funded AI project in India, with the mandate to build large-scale, homegrown AI models for Indian languages, an effort designed to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign technology.

With this support, BharatGen will develop massive AI models, scaling up to one trillion parameters, focused on Indian languages and real-world sectors such as agriculture, education, retail, and public utilities.

Additionally, to power this work, the group will have access to 13,642 NVIDIA GPUs for a year, an infrastructure allocation valued at approximately $100 million.