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News18•09-10-2026, 18:15
Tanumanasa Unveils Antariksha.ai to Build Sovereign Multilingual AI for Bharat
  • •Tanumanasa Research Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian tech company based in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, building sovereign AI solutions rooted in Bharatiya languages, cultures, and sciences.
  • •The company is backed for GPU infrastructure under the Government of India's IndiaAI Mission and supported by Startup Odisha.
  • •Its flagship AI, Antariksha.ai, is designed in the 7B–32B parameter range and natively supports 22+ Bharatiya languages, including tribal and low-resource languages.
  • •Founded by Abinash Das from Kendujhar, Odisha, Tanumanasa aims to decentralize AI innovation from tier-1 cities and bring grassroots technology to the global stage.

Key Questions Answered

Antariksha.ai is a flagship sovereign AI developed by Tanumanasa Research Pvt. Ltd., a company founded by Abinash Das and backed for GPU infrastructure under the Government of India's IndiaAI Mission and Startup Odisha. It is built natively to support over 22 Bharatiya languages and is grounded in Indian Knowledge Systems.

Tanumanasa has been incubated and supported by Startup Odisha, the IndiaAI Mission, the EmTek Centre of Excellence (STPI Bhubaneswar), and the AIC Nalanda Technology Foundation, which have all aided its research capabilities and infrastructure access.

Antariksha.ai is built in the practical 7B to 32B parameter range with a vision to build a trillion-parameter foundational model. It offers capabilities including conversational chat, multilingual content understanding and generation, developer tools, multimodal intelligence, and research tools for papers and patents.