New Delhi: BharatGen, India’s sovereign AI initiative, will launch its 17-billion-parameter foundational model, BharatGen Param2, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The multilingual Mixture of Experts (MoE) model supports 22 Indian languages and has been built from the ground up using Indian data, marking a significant step in the country’s push for AI self-reliance.
Param2 17B is designed to power use cases across enterprise, governance, education, healthcare and agriculture. At the summit, BharatGen will demonstrate sector-specific solutions developed with government and industry partners. In governance, MahaGPT, built with MITRA, Government of Maharashtra, aims to improve efficiency in urban development and revenue departments.
Other initiatives include AI-driven transformation projects with Goa Electronics Limited, and a multi-modal water and sanitation access platform for the Central Government’s Department of Water & Sanitation.
In healthcare, the Medsum app by Mata Amrita Technologies will enable doctor-patient interaction through AI-powered health information access. In education, a Kotak Education Foundation solution assesses spoken English fluency and communication skills. Cultural initiatives include Gyan Bharatam, a Ministry of Culture digitisation project targeting 50 crore manuscripts, and AI tools for the National Archives of India.
Fintech deployments include an AI insurance policy explainer, an underwriting copilot for risk and fraud detection, and an AI chatbot for the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
Supported under the IndiaAI Mission, BharatGen leverages government-backed high-performance computing and Bharat Data Sagar, a large curated data repository. The initiative operates under IIT Bombay’s Technology Innovation Hub with support from the Department of Science and Technology.
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