BharatGen | 05 Oct 2024

Source: PIB 

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. 

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