BharatGen, India’s premier sovereign AI initiative, proudly announces the landmark launch of BharatGen Param2 17 billion parameter model that supports 22 Indian languages. This multilingual Mixture of Experts (MoE) foundational model is built from ground up by BharatGen and represents a pivotal moment in India’s vision for AI self-reliance. The model will officially go live at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
The launch of Param2 17B is more than a technical milestone; it is the cornerstone of a mission to build India-first AI supporting 22 Indian languages and trained extensively on Indian data. By optimizing for multiple Indic languages, BharatGen is ensuring that the future of intelligence is inclusive, accessible, and inherently Indian.
These models are designed to serve critical use cases across core verticals, including enterprise, governance, education, healthcare, and agriculture solutions, thereby accelerating AI adoption across the country.
At the summit, BharatGen will showcase sector-focused demonstrations developed with government and industry partners.
Governance
MahaGPT, built with MITRA, Government of Maharashtra will be a flagship solution in public services to increase government efficiency and accuracy for complex urban development and revenue departments.
Department of Water & Sanitation under Central Government offering multi-modal access for water and sanitation for citizens and government.
AI driven transformation across the Goa Government through Goa Electronics Limited (GEL).
Health care
Medsum app by Mata Amrita Technologies powered by BharatGen models is a unique healthcare solution enabling seamless interaction connecting doctors and patients with health information
Education
Kotak Education Foundation A solution that assesses spoken English fluency and broader communication skills, using advanced models to generate structured evaluation scores and performance insights.
Cultural preservation and access
Gyan Bharatam, Ministry of Culture knowledge digitization initiative: Providing an AI-powered OCR for reading and digitizing ancient documents, combined with conversational AI scalable across 22 Indian languages and will be scaled up to 50 crore digitized manuscripts archive.
National Archives of India (NAI), Ministry of Culture: Unlocking access to India’s history and culture through AI powered tools.
Fintech
An AI-powered policy explainer for a leading insurance company: AI assistant that explains complex insurance policies in a personalized, question-and-answer format, in the customer’s preferred language;
Underwriting Copilot: AI copilot for high-volume underwriting that enables faster risk stratification and fraud detection.
International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA): An AI conversational bot to provide an interactive AI interface that transforms static regulatory manuals into a dynamic “digital conversation,” allowing international investors to navigate India’s market regulations.
Rishi Bal, CEO BharatGen said, “India’s AI progress must be built on language access and contextual understanding. BharatGen is developing AI systems that work naturally across Indian languages and sectors. These models are designed for real deployment across citizen services, finance, healthcare, and education, while strengthening India’s sovereign AI capability. The summit showcase will provide fast go-to-market pathways, along with open access for developers, startups, researchers, and enterprises building AI solutions for India and beyond.”
Supported under the IndiaAI Mission, BharatGen has received government-backed high-performance computing infrastructure and is advancing large-scale mixture-of-experts models that support reasoning, math and code. At the summit, BharatGen will present its Sovereign Multilingual AI models across text, speech, and vision — powered by Bharat Data Sagar, a large, research-led data repository built through extensive data creation and curation efforts across trusted public and private sources.
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