- Published on September 22, 2025
- In AI Features
How BharatGen Took the Biggest Slice of IndiaAI’s GPU Cake
BharatGen has secured 13,640 H100 GPUs and ₹988.6 crore in funding to pursue India’s first trillion-parameter AI model initiative.
- By Mohit Pandey
The second phase of the IndiaAI Mission is all about finally delivering the GPUs that were promised earlier, while also adding new promises to the table. While the first four startups are slowly beginning to receive their hardware, the eight new ones are already queued for allocations.
The government is now moving into full-scale compute deployment, making this the country’s biggest AI GPU programme. At the centre of it is BharatGen, led by an IIT-Bombay consortium, which has received the single largest single GPU allocation in the country to build sovereign large language and multimodal models, surpassing even Sarvam AI, one of the initial selections.
BharatGen has been allocated 4,096 NVIDIA H100 GPUs for two months, 8,192 H100 GPUs for 10 months, 440 H100 GPUs for sp
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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