India government funds 12 AI organisations to develop indigenous models

On 2026-04-04, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it was funding 12 organisations to develop sovereign AI foundational models under the IndiaAI Mission. The supported groups included Sarvam AI, IIT Bombay-led BharatGen, Gnani AI, and others, with BharatGen receiving the largest allocation. The event reflects a state-backed national compute and model-development push rather than a commercial product launch.