BharatGen’s multilingual electronics stack targets governance, fintech.
India’s sovereign AI push takes a significant leap this week as BharatGen prepares to roll out its 17-billion-parameter multilingual foundation model at the India AI Impact Summit, positioning the country’s electronics and computer ecosystem for large-scale AI deployment.
Called Param2 17B, the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has been built from scratch to support 22 Indian languages. Developed under the national IndiaAI Mission, the model is optimized on domestic datasets and trained on government-backed high-performance computing infrastructure. BharatGen says the platform is engineered to handle reasoning, mathematics and coding tasks, while supporting multimodal text, speech and vision workloads.
The rollout is designed to move beyond benchmarks into deployment across public services, financial systems and enterprise applications. At the summit, BharatGen will demonstrate governance tools including MahaGPT, built with MITRA for the Government of Maharashtra, aimed at streamlining urban development and revenue administration. Additional implementations include AI interfaces for the Department of Water & Sanitation and digital transformation initiatives led by Goa Electronics Limited.
Healthcare and education form another layer of the stack. Mata Amrita Technologies’ Medsum app integrates the model to connect doctors and patients through AI-assisted medical information exchange. In education, Kotak Education Foundation is deploying speech-based AI to assess English fluency and communication skills.
Cultural digitization is also part of the electronics-heavy roadmap. Under the Gyan Bharatam initiative, the Ministry of Culture is integrating AI-powered OCR and conversational systems to scale access to millions of archived manuscripts, including projects with the National Archives of India.
In fintech, BharatGen is enabling AI policy explainers for insurers, underwriting copilots for risk analysis and a conversational regulatory assistant for the International Financial Services Centres Authority. CEO Rishi Bal says the focus is on real-world deployment and open access for developers, startups and enterprises. The showcase signals India’s intent to build sovereign, multilingual AI infrastructure tightly coupled with its domestic electronics and computer backbone.
