BharatGen

About BharatGen:

• It is an initiative which will create generative AI systems that can generate high-quality text and multimodal content in various Indian languages.
• It is the first Government-supported Multimodal Large Language Model Initiative. 
• It is implemented by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS).

• Features of BharatGen

• The multilingual and multimodal nature of foundation models; 
• Bhartiya data set-based building, and training; 
• Open-source platform development of an ecosystem of generative AI research in the country. 

• The project is expected to be completed in two years along with plans to benefit several government, private, educational, and research institutions.

What is Multimodal Large Language Model?

• It is designed to process and generate multiple modalities, including text, images, and sometimes audio and video. 
• These models are trained on large datasets containing text and image data, allowing them to learn the relationships between different modalities. 
• They can be used in many ways, including image captioning, visual question answering, and content recommendation systems that use text and image data to provide personalized recommendations.