{"id":1027608,"date":"2026-08-10T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027608"},"modified":"2026-08-10T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:30:52","slug":"building-ai-models-from-ground-up-makes-you-competitive-in-the-long-run-bharatgens-ceo-rishi-bal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/building-ai-models-from-ground-up-makes-you-competitive-in-the-long-run-bharatgens-ceo-rishi-bal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Building AI models from ground up makes you competitive in the long run\u2019: BharatGen\u2019s CEO Rishi Bal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after being launched by a consortium led by IIT Bombay as the country\u2019s first government-backed sovereign AI initiative, BharatGen secured over Rs 900 crore in funding by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). As the concept of \u2018sovereignty\u2019 in AI catches further steam, CEO of the non-profit, Rishi Bal in an interview with Poulomi Chatterjee, spoke at length about how the AI terrain is changing, why India shouldn\u2019t distill AI models like China and what is next for BharatGen. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after being launched by a consortium led by IIT Bombay as the country\u2019s first government-backed sovereign AI initiative, BharatGen secured over Rs 900 crore in funding by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). As the concept of \u2018sovereignty\u2019 in AI catches further steam, CEO of the non-profit, Rishi Bal in an interview with Poulomi Chatterjee, spoke at length about how the AI terrain is changing, why India shouldn\u2019t distill AI models like China and what is next for BharatGen. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027669,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027608\/revisions\/1027669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}