Context:
India launches BharatGen, World’s First Government-funded Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)
BharatGen:
- Launched by – Ministry of Science & Technology.
- Objective – To develop generative AI systems capable of producing high-quality text, speech, and multimodal content in various Indian languages.
- Implementation Agency – IIT Bombay, under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS).
- Key Features –
- India-centric Data – Focuses on collecting and curating data specific to India, reducing reliance on foreign models.
- Multilingual and Multimodal – Supports diverse Indian languages, dialects, and cultural contexts.
- Open-source Platform – Accessible to all, promoting industrial, commercial, cultural, and inclusive technological development.
MLLM and Generative AI:
- MLLM – Large Language Models (LLM) trained on extensive datasets, including text and non-textual data (images, audio, video).
- These models use machine learning to understand and interpret human languages and other complex data.
- Generative AI – Utilizes algorithms and deep-learning models to create new content, such as audio, code, images, and text.
Source: PIB
Previous Year Question
With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following?
1. Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units
2. Create meaningful short stories and songs
3. Disease diagnosis
4. Text-to-Speech Conversion
5. Wireless transmission of electrical energy
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2020 Prelims]
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 only
(b) 1, 3 and 4 only
(c) 2, 4 and 5 only
(d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Answer: (d)
