IBM and BharatGen collaborate to accelerate AI adoption in India with Indic LLMs
IBM and BharatGen have announced a strategic partnership to advance AI adoption in India by developing sovereign multimodal AI models tailored to the country’s linguistic and cultural landscape. This partnership aims to serve both national and commercial needs across agriculture, finance, healthcare, national security, and education.
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IBM and BharatGen partnership
BharatGen, an indigenously developed, government-backed, multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) designed for major Indian languages, has announced a collaboration with top IT firm IBM to accelerate the adoption of AI in India, tailored to India’s linguistic and cultural landscape.
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Aims to develop India-centric AI systems
The collaboration combines IBM’s expertise in data, governance, and model training with BharatGen’s commitment to building India-centric AI systems. The partnership will focus on developing and scaling multimodal and language-specific AI models and expanding their usage across various sectors, including education, agriculture, healthcare, banking, and national security.
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To develop solution templates for Indic use cases
As part of the collaboration, the two organisations will develop solution templates, especially for Indic use cases, by leveraging BharatGen’s models and data with IBM’s AI technologies, including IBM Granite models. Further, both companies aim to create benchmarks suited for Indian languages and domains.
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To serve both national and commercial needs
BharatGen’s LLM and foundation model roadmap seeks to address both national and commercial needs in agriculture, education, healthcare, national security, and finance. A key priority is the inclusion of underserved Indian languages and dialects beyond the top 12–22 languages, to ensure broader digital participation and equality.
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