Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
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ANI The government has selected eight new players to develop a foundational Large Language Model (LLM), under the India AI Mission including Tech Mahindra, Fractal Analytics, BharatGen (an IIT-Bombay Consortium), Avataar AI and Shodh AI, among others.
For IIT-Bombay’s proposed LLM, the IndiaAI Mission is allocating financial assistance of ₹988.6 crore, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, informed on Thursday. Speaking at the pre-event of AI Impact Summit 2026, to be held in February, Vaishnw said the LLM, which is proposed to be developed by IIT-Bombay, is expected to have one-trillion parameters.
Parameters in LLM refer to number of learned internal variables that capture patterns and relationships in language from training data. Other players that have been selected include Zeinteiq Aitech Innovations, Genloop Intelligence Pvt Ltd and NeuroDX (Intellihealth).
The government in May had announced three more start-ups selected to build India’s first home-grown artificial intelligence (AI) foundational model — SoketAI, Gnani.ai and Gan AI. Before that, in April four start-ups were also selected to focus on a specific type of AI models including Sarvam AI.
Published: September 18, 2025 5:26 pm
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