Bengaluru, February 17 (IANS). Bengaluru-based AI infrastructure company Bharat1.AI on Tuesday announced that it will set up the country’s first ‘Humanity-First AI City’ in the city.
The objective of this project is to create a large platform for model training, fine-tuning and inference. The company aims to have more than 10,000 AI researchers and innovators working here by the end of this year.
The company said in its statement that this initiative is a plan to create research and infrastructure at the city level, the aim of which is to develop advanced agentic and physical AI systems in real conditions.
Under this scheme, ‘B1 AI Superpark’ spread over 5 lakh square feet will be built in Sarjapur. It will be a modern AI research and innovation campus, with leading institutions of the country joining as initial research partners, including IIT Kanpur’s Airavata Research Foundation, IISc’s Safety, Privacy and AI Research Center (SPARC), Wadhwani School of AI and Intelligent Systems (IIT Kanpur), BITS Pilani, iSpirit Foundation and IIT Ropar.
In the first phase of the project, basic AI frameworks will be developed and tested under controlled and real-world conditions. Also, city level open world models will be created with the help of high quality multimodal data. A robust validation system will also be created for agentic and physical AI systems before large-scale deployment.
The campus will have high-speed connectivity of up to 400 Gbps with sub-millisecond latency to leading AI cloud platforms. This will avoid data-related interruptions during large-scale research and testing.
According to the company, over the next 36 months the project will grow beyond a superpark into a large AI city testbed, allowing Indian and global organizations to test and deploy AI systems at the urban scale.
Umakant Soni, co-founder and CEO of Bharat1.AI, said it can be risky to implement AI systems on a large scale without testing them in complex, real-world environments. He said that Bharat1.AI is our big venture for humanity, whose aim is to create AI systems that are safe, reliable and in line with human values.
Meanwhile, ‘India AI Impact Summit 2026’, one of the largest AI conferences in the Global South, entered its second day. The five-day conference will run till February 20, in which more than 100 government representatives, more than 20 heads of state, 60 ministers and deputy ministers and more than 500 global AI experts are participating.
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