BharatGen, a fully government-funded AI initiative under India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with L&T Semiconductor Technologies and L&T-Vyoma, to jointly design, build, and deploy an end-to-end sovereign AI compute platform for India.
The MoU signing ceremony was held in the presence of leading representatives from the Government of India, including Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and Parvinder Maini, Scientific Secretary at the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser.
In a press release, BharatGen explained that under the agreement, L&T Semiconductor Technologies will design and develop custom AI ASIC and xPU chips optimized specifically for BharatGen’s AI workloads. These chips will enable efficient processing for large-scale AI applications including language models and multimodal systems.
L&T-Vyoma, which is L&T’s data center arm, will provide AI-ready data center infrastructure, including its upcoming 30 MW data center facility in Kanchipuram, to support large-scale AI compute requirements across the country.
Meanwhile, BharatGen will define and co-optimize AI workloads and foundational models, including large language models (LLMs), small language models (SLMs), and multimodal AI systems tailored to India’s diverse linguistic and societal needs.
This strategic collaboration represents a major step toward building a fully indigenous AI ecosystem, bringing together advanced semiconductor innovation, large-scale computing infrastructure, and foundational AI model development designed specifically for India.
BharatGen, supported by institutions including IIT Bombay, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy), aims to build AI systems that serve India’s diverse population, supporting more than 22 Indian languages and addressing national priorities across sectors.