By the time the AI Impact Summit begins in February 2026, Minister Vaishnaw is certain that India will have a model or models that are working “very well.”
India Selects Eight Firms for LLM Development
Speaking at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi on September 18, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the government has chosen eight new companies to create a foundational Large Language Model (LLM) as part of the India AI Mission. Among these companies are Tech Mahindra, Fractal Analytics, and BharatGen, an IIT Bombay Consortium.
There will likely be one trillion factors in the LLM that IIT Bombay is proposing to construct. The term “parameters” in LLM refers to the quantity of learning internal variables, often known as biases, that use training data to identify patterns and correlations in language. The India AI Mission has received Rs 988.6 crore in funding for IIT Bombay’s planned LLM.
The other organizations chosen today to work on the India AI Mission’s basic LLM development are:
1. AI from Avataar
2. BharatGen, an IIT Bombay Consortium
3. Fractal Analytics Ltd.
4. Mahindra Tech Ltd.
5. Zeinteiq Innovations in AI
6. Genloop Intelligence Pvt Ltd
7. Intellihealth’s NeuroDX
8. Shodh AI
India Advances Indigenous AI Model Development
The government stated on May 30, 2025, that three further startups—SoketAI, Gnani.ai, and Gan AI—had been chosen to develop India’s first indigenous artificial intelligence (AI) fundamental model. Sarvam AI was one of four businesses chosen in April 2025 to concentrate on a certain kind of AI model. The government has also collaborated with cloud and data service providers to guarantee GPU access in order to assist these AI models.
By the time the AI Impact Summit begins in February 2026, Minister Vaishnaw is certain that India will have a model or models that are working “very well.”
MeiTY and the office of the chief scientific adviser have been working on an AI framework that the government will deploy within the next ten days.