BharatGen unveils 17B-Parameter Sovereign Multilingual AI model at India AI Impact Summit 2026

BharatGen, India’s sovereign AI initiative, has announced the launch of BharatGen Param2 17B MoE, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundational model, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The development represents a significant step in advancing India’s push toward self-reliant and inclusive artificial intelligence ecosystems.

The model is designed to support multiple Indic languages and reflects BharatGen’s broader vision of building AI systems aligned with India’s linguistic diversity, cultural context, and public-sector priorities. Developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, the training pipeline leverages NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and infrastructure, including NVIDIA NeMo open libraries and Base Command Manager for scalable model training and deployment.

Focus on sovereign and inclusive AI

Optimised for Indic language use cases, the Param2 17B model is positioned to support applications across governance, education, healthcare, agriculture, and enterprise sectors. By enabling multilingual AI capabilities at scale, the initiative aims to ...