India Releases Multilingual AI Models for Inclusion

India unveils government-funded multilingual AI initiatives BharatGen AI and Bharat GPT in June 2025, supporting 22 official Indian languages and multimodal text, speech, and image capabilities. The programs aim to address data imbalance—Indic languages account for roughly 0.1% of online content versus 59% English—by enabling voice-first, local-language agents for banking, healthcare, governance, and expanding digital inclusion and exportable solutions.