Bodhan AI, a Centre of Excellence in AI for Education incubated within IIT Madras and supported by the Union Ministry of Education, along with AI4Bharat, a research lab in IIT Madras, have launched four foundational AI models for Indian languages.
The models will be made available to the technology and education ecosystem through open-weight releases and hosted APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The suite of AI models spans four core capabilities: speech recognition, speech generation, machine translation, and optical character recognition.
With this, government partners and public institutions can now potentially deploy multilingual AI capabilities for education and other public-service applications using sovereign infrastructure, a press release stated. EdTEch companies would now be able to integrate Indian language AI capabilities into their products through APIs without having to develop foundational models from scratch, it added.
Published – September 05, 2026 12:29 am IST
