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‘Bharat Gen’ AI-based multimodal LLM for Indian languages launched

Why in the News?

Union Minister of State for Science & Technology has launched ‘Bharat Gen’, India’s first indigenously developed AI-based Large Language Model (LLM) tailored for Indian languages.

About Bharat Gen:

  • What is it: Bharat Gen is India’s first homegrown AI-based multimodal large language model (LLM) supporting 22 Indian languages.
  • Developed By: Created under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) and implemented by the TIH Foundation for IoT and IoE at IIT Bombay.
  • Key Features:
    • Understands text, speech, and image inputs.
    • Works across India’s diverse languages and cultures.
    • Designed to be ethical, inclusive, and culturally rooted.
  • Support and Collaboration: Backed by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and developed in collaboration with top academic and AI institutions.
  • Bharat Data Sagar: A national effort to collect language data for lesser-known Indian languages to train future AI tools.
  • Real-World Use: In places like Udhampur, an AI doctor powered by Bharat Gen is helping patients in their native language.

What are Large Language Models (LLMs)?

  • LLMs are computer programs that can read, understand, and write language like humans. They can answer questions, explain topics, write stories, translate languages, and more.
  • Why are they called “large”?
    • They are trained using a huge amount of text from books, websites, newspapers, etc.
    • They also have billions of settings (called parameters) that help them understand words and sentences better.
  • How do they work?
    • LLMs break your sentence into small parts (called tokens).
    • They guess the next word in the sentence, one by one, using what they’ve learned.
    • This is how they create full and meaningful answers.
  • How are they trained?
    1. Step 1 – Pre-training: The LLM reads lots of text and learns how language works.
    2. Step 2 – Fine-tuning: It is then taught how to do specific tasks like summarising or translating.
    3. Step 3 – Human Help: People check the answers and give feedback, so the LLM learns to give better responses.
  • How do LLMs understand language so well? They use a special model called a transformer, which has tools to:
    • Focus on important words in a sentence (self-attention).
    • Understand the order of words (positional encoding).
    • Learn patterns and meaning using neural networks (like a brain made of computer code).

 

[UPSC 2020] With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following?

(1) Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units (2) Create meaningful short stories and songs (3) Disease diagnosis (4) Text-to-Speech Conversion (5) Wireless transmission of electrical energy Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Options: (a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 only (b) 1, 3 and 4 only* (c) 2, 4 and 5 only (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

 

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