Buckle up, India: The AI revolution gets a desi twist with PARAM-2, a 17B parameter multilingual powerhouse slated for unveiling at the 2026 India AI Impact Summit. BharatGen, DST’s flagship generative AI drive, is delivering India’s first sovereign foundational model.
Fine-tuned on Bharat Data Sagar’s rich troves, PARAM-2 masters all 22 scheduled languages using cutting-edge Mixture-of-Experts tech. It’s built for real-world Indian challenges—think government workflows, cultural contexts, and beyond.
IIT Bombay’s Professor Ganesh Ramakrishnan hails it as a collaborative milestone, uniting academia, government, and industry to forge India’s AI destiny. No longer reliant on foreign models, India steps into the big leagues.
Forget centralized B2C services; PARAM-2 rolls out as open public digital infrastructure. Deploy it in air-gapped networks for banks, courts, hospitals—anywhere security trumps connectivity. Transparency and sovereignty are non-negotiable.
From 235 crore seed funding via the Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems Mission to the IndiaAI Mission’s 900 crore boost, investments are paying off. PARAM-2 signals India’s ascent in global AI, promising smarter governance, education, and innovation for every citizen.