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

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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.

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.

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).