IIT Bombay has unveiled BharatGen, a multilingual AI ecosystem covering all 22 scheduled Indian languages, at the Bharat Innovates 2026 event in Nice, France. Developed under Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan, the platform integrates language, speech and vision models and is backed by government and academic institutions under India’s sovereign AI push.
India's bid to build an artificial intelligence ecosystem entirely on its own terms arrived on a global stage this week, as IIT Bombay showcased BharatGen, a multilingual AI platform covering all 22 scheduled Indian languages, at Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, France.
The three-day event, running from June 14 to 16, was organised by the Ministry of Education with guidance from the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and was designed to place India's research-driven startups and institutions before global investors, innovation agencies, industry leaders and policymakers.
What is BharatGen AI?
BharatGen is a foundational AI ecosystem developed at IIT Bombay's Department of Computer Science and Engineering under Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan, supported by a team of more than 60 researchers, engineers and linguists and backed by a consortium of nine academic institutions.
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