Science, Discovery, Tech and Environment · 8 September 2026

IIT-M’s Bodhan AI Launches 4 Multilingual AI Models to Build India’s Education Stack

Exam-focused facts from the 8 September 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • IIT Madras' Bodhan AI launched four AI models for Indian languages.
  • The models are available as open-weight models and APIs on sovereign digital infrastructure.
  • The models are part of the Bharat EduAI Stack.
  • The models were trained and optimised using NVIDIA's Nemotron open models and libraries, including the NVIDIA NeMo framework.
  • The models support speech recognition, machine translation, and OCR.
  • The company launched two applications: Student Tutor Bot and Teacher Assistant Bot.

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