'No Single Tariff Can Hit Us': BharatGen CEO Rishi Bal On How IIT Bombay's AI Model Is Built To Survive Any World War Or Trade War
While global frontier models like ChatGPT and Claude continue to chase ever-larger scale, BharatGen is charting a different course altogether. Housed at the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay and backed by the government's IndiaAI Mission, BharatGen recently unveiled Param2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual model. At its core is a commitment to sovereignty - built on India's own data and…
BharatGen's AI model, Param2, stands out as a sovereign solution built on India's own data and compute resources. CEO Rishi Bal explains that the model is designed to be accessible and affordable for various users, from rural hospitals to large enterprises. The model's 17 billion parameters and its diverse training on over 20 trillion tokens of Indian data set it apart from global players like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude, which focus on broader, more general applications.
Bal emphasizes that India doesn't need to build the largest models; instead, it should aim to develop the most useful AI solutions that serve all citizens. With a strong research team and a commitment to using only Indian data and infrastructure, BharatGen believes it can provide region-specific, high-quality AI services that are immune to geopolitical shocks like wars or trade wars.
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