IIT Bombay, BharatGen join Project Tapestry

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IIT Bombay, BharatGen join Project Tapestry

India's sovereign AI initiative BharatGen, led by IIT Bombay, has joined the AI Alliance's Project Tapestry as a founding contributor and country anchor. The collaboration will see BharatGen co-lead workstreams in distributed training to shape globally federated, open-source frontier AI models.

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India's alignment with Project Tapestry is a major step forward for sovereign AI, demonstrating that developing nations can actively co-author the future of global frontier models rather than just consume them.

–Co-leading the distributed training workstreams positions IIT Bombay at the heart of technical solutions to compute scalability.
–The federated approach allows India to protect its national data sovereignty while still benefiting from global collaboration.
–Integrating BharatGen ensures that multilingual and multimodal support for India's diverse languages is built into the core design of global open-source AI infrastructure.

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2026-06-21

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