<h1>Government funds Rs 988.6 crore to consortium to build sovereign generative AI stack, models up to one trillion parameters</h1> A government ministry awarded a public research consortium approximately Rs. 988.6 crore as part of a Rs. 1,500 crore national AI mission, making the consortium the largest beneficiary to develop a sovereign generative AI stack. The funded program must build large and smaller language and multimodal models-targets include models up to one trillion parameters-deploy supercomputing resources, and expand bilingual efforts to multilingual support across scheduled languages for applications in agriculture, governance, finance, healthcare and education. The initiative is government-funded, anchored at a major technology hub, involves multiple academic institutions, and is positioned as a one-year allocation to scale India-focused AI infrastructure and services.