BharatGen launched

The government has unveiled BharatGen, a pioneering initiative aimed at revolutionizing public service delivery through generative AI. This groundbreaking project is designed to develop advanced multilingual and multimodal models tailored to India’s diverse linguistic and cultural landscape. The virtual launch ceremony was inaugurated by Dr Jitendra Singh, union minister of state (Independent Charge) for science and technology. Dr Singh emphasized BharatGen’s role in advancing India’s technological self-reliance, drawing parallels to the success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). He also highlighted that this initiative marks the world’s first government-funded Multimodal Large