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BharatGen to Represent India in Project Tapestry Under AI Alliance

An initiative of the AI Alliance, Project Tapestry is a global open consortium that aims to build frontier AI capability through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.
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June 23, 2026 09:36 AM IST | Written by Supriya Singh | Edited by Vaibhav Jha

BharatGen, India’s first government-funded sovereign AI initiative developing multimodal large language models (LLMs), will represent the country in the Project Tapestry, an open source platform for frontier AI development under AI Alliance

AI Alliance is an open-source community non-profit organization, launched by IBM and META in 2023, and is dedicated to safe, responsible and open innovation in artificial intelligence.

Project Tapestry is a global open consortium under AI Alliance that aims to build frontier AI capability through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.

“As India builds frontier AI rooted in its own languages and knowledge, IIT Bombay and BharatGen supported by the India AI mission are proud to support and participate as a founding contributor in Project Tapestry, an open, global consortium for nations to advance frontier AI together,” said Shireesh Kedare, director, IIT Bombay and chairman, BharatGen.

BharatGen aims to create AI systems that can understand and generate text, speech and images in 22 Indian languages. The government has described it as a “national mission to create AI that is ethical, inclusive, multilingual, and deeply rooted in Indian values and ethos.”

 

The initiative is supported by the government’s department of science and technology and is led by a consortium of leading institutions including Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay and other academic partners.

Project Tapestry aims to bring together more data, talent, and resources than any one organization can do on their own, to create more capable, accessible and valuable AI.

According to the AI Alliance, a non-profit AI research and open-source technology coalition with more than 200 member organizations, the partnership aligns country’s self-reliant AI ambitions with Tapestry’s collaborative model for building frontier AI while preserving national control over data, models, and deployment.

“AI is becoming essential infrastructure. No single company or country should determine who can build on it, adapt it, or benefit from it. Project Tapestry is a test of whether frontier AI can be built as open infrastructure: collaborative, capable, and sovereign by design,” said Dr Yann LeCun, chief science advisor, AI Alliance and Executive Chairman, AMI Labs.

Project Tapestry was officially launched a month ago at a kick-off technical workshop in Paris with 30 AI leaders from the US, France, India, Vietnam, Japan, Switzerland, UAE, and beyond.

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  • AI FrontPage Reporter Supriya Singh

    Supriya Singh is a Reporter at AI FrontPage covering the AI & Education and AI & Jobs beats. She brings six years of print and digital experience, including three years at The Asian Age, where she reported on higher education, Delhi government, and crime. She is based in Delhi-NCR.

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    Vaibhav Jha is an Editor and Co-founder of AI FrontPage. In his decade long career in journalism, Vaibhav has reported for publications including The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and The New York Times, covering the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Outside work, he’s usually trying to persuade people to watch Anurag Kashyap films.

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