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Inside Bharat1.AI’s Ambitious Blueprint to Build Bengaluru’s First AI City
- •Bharat1.AI has opened its 10-storey AI Superpark at RGA Tech Park on Bengaluru's Sarjapur Road, with the second floor already operational and housing tech founders and robotic AI model testing.
- •The current 500,000 sq ft facility is Phase 1 of the project, while Phase 2 involves building a 70-acre human-centric AI city near Agara Lake by 2029 where humans, digital twins, and robots will co-exist.
- •The startup is co-founded by Umakant Soni, Subhashis Banerjee, and Sireesh Kupendra, and is in the process of raising $650 million through equity and debt to fund the entire project.
- •The AI Superpark already has around 15 foundational partners including NVIDIA, Neysa, and various IITs, and aims to host over 100 foundational AI startups within the next year.
- •The upcoming township-like AI city is expected to house 6,000 researchers and 25,000 workers, utilizing thousands of cameras, radars, and robots to generate 1 exabyte of data annually for AI training.
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Bharat1.AI opened its 10-storey AI Superpark on Sarjapur Road in Bengaluru as Phase 1 of its plan. The 500,000 sq ft facility accommodates up to 10,000 people and serves as an AI ecosystem where foundational startups share data, compute, and research infrastructure.
Bharat1.AI is co-founded by Umakant Soni, Subhashis Banerjee, and Sireesh Kupendra. Additionally, the founding team has onboarded Emmanuel Bacry and former Department of Science and Technology Secretary Prof. Ashutosh Sharma as founding advisors.
Phase 2 involves building a human-centric AI township spread across 70 acres near Agara Lake in Bengaluru. Expected to open by 2029, the city is planned to house 6,000 researchers and 25,000 workers, functioning as a real-world physical AI simulator.
