BharatGen and L&T Arms to Build India's Sovereign AI Compute Platform

Key facts

• L&T Semiconductor Technologies Ltd (LTSCT), Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma, and BharatGen Technology Foundation (BharatGen) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build an end-to-end Sovereign AI compute platform.
• The collaboration focuses on defining sovereign AI reference architectures and establishing benchmarks for performance, energy, and security.
• LTSCT will provide custom AI chips, including AI ASIC and xPU silicon platforms, to handle sovereign AI workloads based on BharatGen models.
• Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma will enable AI-ready compute environments through a 30 MW facility in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, and its hyperscale data centre infrastructure.
• BharatGen will define representative AI workloads encompassing Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), and Small Language Models (SLMs).
• BharatGen received formal approval from IndiaAI under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to develop and deploy nationally aligned foundational AI models at scale.
• The partnership involves the development of a phased three-year implementation roadmap.