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    India launches BharatGen, World’s First Government-funded Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)

    Posted 01 Oct 2024

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    BharatGen has been launched by the Ministry of Science & Technology

    • It is aligned with the goal of Making AI in India and Making AI for India. 

    About BharatGen

    • Aim: Creation of Generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text (including speech) and multimodal content in various Indian languages. 
    • Implementing Agency: IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). 
    • Features: 
      • Building and training based on Bhartiya data set: Collect and curate India-centric data, reducing dependence on foreign models. 
      • Multilingual and multimodal nature: Ensuring representation to the country's diverse languages, dialects, and cultural contexts. 
      • Open-source platform: Accessible to all citizens: Ensuring Industrial, Commercial, Cultural, and Inclusive technological development. 

    About MLLM and Generative AI 

    • MLLM are Large Language Models (LLM) trained on large datasets including both text and non-textual data (image, audio, video, etc.)
      • LLM uses machine learning and is capable of recognizing and interpreting human languages or other complex data. 
        • Generative AI is the most well-known application of LLM. 
    • Generative AI includes algorithms/deep-learning models that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, etc.

    National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), 2018

    • Objective: Brings together academia, industry, government and international organizations to foster entrepreneurship, translational research, and commercialization of CPS technologies.
      • CPS are networked systems in which the computational (cyber) part is tightly integrated with the physical components. E.g., autonomous vehicles, etc. 
    • Implementing Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST). 
    • Tags :
    • Generative AI
    • BharatGen
    • Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)
    • National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS)
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