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BharatGen
- 05 Oct 2024
- 1 min read
Recently, the Ministry of Science & Technology launched BharatGen, a generative AI initiative designed to enhance public service delivery.
- It aims to create foundational models in language, speech, and computer vision to address India's socio-cultural and linguistic diversity.
- It is the world’s first government-funded Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) project for Indian languages.
- LLMs are AI systems capable of understanding and generating human language by processing vast amounts of text data.
- It is led by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), and involves collaboration with academic institutions like IITs and IIM Indore.
- It emphasises developing processes to curate India-centric data, enhancing the country’s control over its digital resources.
- It has four key features:
- Multilingual and multimodal models,
- Bhartiya dataset-based training,
- Open-source platform,
- Generative AI research ecosystem in India.
- Generative AI can produce various types of content, including text, imagery, and audio.
Read More: Large Language Models (LLMs)
