Pioneering open, multimodal AI across 22+ Indic languages so communities can navigate public services, education, and healthcare in their own voice.
Indian computer scientist Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Founding Director of BharatGen and Professor at IIT Bombay, is rebuilding how people interact with technology. With global AI designed primarily for English, hundreds of millions of non-English speakers face barriers accessing vital healthcare, agricultural advisories, and public services.
To bridge this gap, Ganesh leads BharatGen, India’s government-backed, open-source foundation stack across 22+ Indic languages. Built using frugal AI techniques, his multimodal models process text, spoken dialects, and official paper documents. This enables farmers to ask crop questions in Marathi, health workers to interpret medical records, and families to decode complex forms without needing an expert.
Ganesh advocates for an “open rails” equity model—akin to India’s UPI payment system—where communities build and adapt their own AI rather than depending on foreign tools. Driven to meet people where they are, he is equipping communities to participate in shaping their digital future.