BharatGen joins Project Tapestry to push multilingual frontier AI

Multilingual AI enters the frontier race

Frontier AI is increasingly tied to national language capacity, not only to English-language benchmarks. IIT Bombay’s June 20 tweet says BharatGen is joining Project Tapestry as a founding contributor. The substantive line is: As India builds frontier AI rooted in its own languages and knowledge, IIT Bombay and BharatGen are proud to support and participate in Project Tapestry.

The tweet describes Project Tapestry as an open, global consortium for nations to advance frontier AI together. BharatGen is supported by the IndiaAI Mission and the Department of Science and Technology, and is described as multilingual AI infrastructure built natively for India’s diverse languages. IIT Bombay says a Letter of Intent was signed on June 18 by director Prof. Shireesh Kedare, with BharatGen founding director Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan present. Project Tapestry was represented by Dr. Christopher Nguyễn, its chief architect and an AI Alliance board member.

IIT Bombay is one of India’s leading technical institutes, and the post was amplified into the AI research community through a repost by Yann LeCun. The signal is that sovereign AI does not have to mean a closed national stack. India’s effort is being framed as language-rooted infrastructure that can connect to an open international consortium.

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The next question is what Project Tapestry actually shares: benchmarks, model components, datasets, governance rules, or deployment playbooks. For BharatGen, the key measure will be how well its multilingual infrastructure represents India’s language diversity and whether it can interoperate with other national AI efforts. The source tweet is available on X.