To further India’s plans of a self-reliant AI ecosystem, L&T Semiconductor TechnologiesLtd (LTSCT), Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma and BharatGen Technology Foundation have signed a five-year MoU to build an end-to-end Sovereign AI compute platform.
The collaboration will focus on defining sovereign AI reference architectures, establishing benchmarks for performance, energy, and security. Going forward, companies will form joint working groups, define scope boundaries and success metrics, develop a phased three-year implementation roadmap, and prepare a joint proposal for government and strategic funding.
Under this partnership, LTSCT will provide custom AI chips such as AI ASIC and xPU silicon platforms to handle sovereign AI workloads based on Bharatgen models. The other L&T unit focusing on data centre and cloud services will enable AI-ready compute environments through the 30 MW facility in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, along with the rest of its hyperscale data centre infrastructure.
BharatGen will define representative AI workloads encompassing large language models (LLMs), large multimodal models (LMMs), and small language models (SLMs). Further, BharatGen said it has received formal approval from IndiaAI under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, (MeitY) to develop and deploy nationally aligned foundational AI models at scale.
“India’s AI future must be built on foundations we design, own, and scale ourselves. This partnership brings together sovereign silicon, sovereign models, and sovereign infrastructure into one unified national platform,” said Sandeep Kumar, Chief Executive, L&T Semiconductor TechnologiesLtd.
“This collaboration with L&T Semiconductor Technologies and Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma marks a defining step towards building a fully indigenous AI ecosystem — from silicon to software to sovereign infrastructure.” said Rishi Bal, CEO, BharatGen Technology Foundation.
Published on April 23, 2026