Information and Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the government will establish over 500 data labs nationwide as part of the India AI Mission. Announcing a pre-event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, eight new companies have been chosen, including Tech Mahindra, Fractal Analytics, and BharatGen, an IIT Bombay consortium, to develop large language models.

The government has allotted 988.6 crore rupees under the IndiaAI Mission for the consortium headed by IIT Bombay to develop a Large Language Model (LLM) with 1 trillion parameters. The IndiaAI Mission is the Centre’s initiative to develop autonomous AI capabilities through sector-specific AI applications, sovereign LLMs, GPUs, and skilling programmes. It was approved earlier this year with an expenditure of 10,300 crore rupees.