BHASHINI Konkani Large Language Model launched at the Goa AI Tech Conclave
22 October 2026
The BHASHINI Konkani Large Language Model (LLM) was launched at the opening of the Goa AI Tech Conclave 2026 at INOX, Panaji.
The two-day conclave on 22 and 23 October was run by the Goa government's Department of Information Technology, Electronics and Communications.
Its theme was 'AI for People, Planet and Progress'.
The model is meant to help AI systems understand and produce Konkani, in both text and speech.
Konkani uses Devanagari as its official script and is also written in Roman and Kannada scripts.
BHASHINI comes from the Digital India BHASHINI Division under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
It also proposed a Data Daan pilot in Goa, alongside its Bhasha Daan platform, to gather Konkani language data, and showed live Konkani-English speech translation.
In plain words
LLM Large Language Model — An AI model trained on large amounts of text to understand and generate language.
BHASHINI Digital India BHASHINI — The national language-technology platform for Indian languages under MeitY.
MeitY Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — The Union ministry in charge of IT and electronics policy.
Bhasha Daan Bhasha Daan — A BHASHINI platform where people contribute language data to train AI models.