India’s AI powered national language translation platform BHASHINI has completed a major technological transition by migrating entirely to Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, AI models, and citizen interactions remain within the country’s jurisdiction.
The transformation follows the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s sovereign AI cloud on Yotta Data Services’ Government Community Cloud and Shakti Cloud, marking a significant milestone aligned with the objectives of the IndiaAI Mission and reinforcing India’s push toward self-reliant AI capabilities.
The migration from a global hyperscaler to an indigenous operator demonstrates how BHASHINI’s national language AI platform, combined with domestic cloud and GPU infrastructure, can support mission-critical artificial intelligence at scale.
The initiative establishes a national reference architecture for Indian organisations planning transitions to sovereign, population-scale AI platforms.
The milestone was showcased at The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues, where a report highlighted real-world deployment during the Maha Kumbh 2025.
Powered by NVIDIA H100-enabled Shakti Cloud, BHASHINI delivered real-time translation and voice-based assistance in more than 11 Indian languages, including the multilingual assistant Kumbh SahAIyak.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, the deployment demonstrates how national digital public goods can be migrated from hyperscaler environments to indigenous cloud infrastructure while delivering up to 40 per cent performance improvement, 20 to 30 per cent cost savings, and sustained 99.99 per cent uptime.
This was achieved with zero data loss across more than 200 TiB of data and over 3.5 billion files.
Executed over a two to three month period, the migration covered BHASHINI’s complete AI stack including datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage, using open-source, cloud-agnostic components to support vendor neutrality and strategic autonomy.
The newly deployed environment is designed as a modular framework that ministries, public sector units, and national programmes can adopt, reinforcing India’s ambition to position AI as a secure and inclusive public utility supporting economic growth and digital inclusion.
