Hyderabad, Feb 18: At the India AI Impact Summit, Bharat1.AI today unveiled its vision to build a Humanity-First AI City in Bengaluru a city-scale research and infrastructure initiative designed to advance foundational Agentic and Physical AI systems in real-world environments.
As artificial intelligence transitions from laboratory experimentation into real-world deployment, questions of safety, reliability, and alignment are becoming increasingly urgent. While large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in language and coding, intelligence built primarily on fragmented internet-scale data alone is unlikely to serve as a sufficient foundation for the next generation of autonomous and physical systems. The need now is not just more scale, but validated, real-world intelligence grounded in real world data.
The first phase of this vision will take shape through the B1 AI Superpark a 500,000 sq. ft. AI research and innovation campus in Sarjapura, Bengaluru, built for easy AI model training, fine tuning and inference featuring plug and play space for hosting 10000+ AI researchers & AI innovators from AI startups, Universities , AI research labs and large global and Indian companies by this year end. Phase 1 will focus on developing and stress-testing universal basic intelligence frameworks in controlled, real-world conditions, building open city-scale world models using structured, high-quality multimodal data, and creating robust validation layers for agentic and physical AI systems before they are deployed at scale. It will also strive to look at fundamentally anchoring Agentic systems with digitised human identity systems like Aadhaar.
The Superpark will bring together leading Indian institutions including The Airawat Research Foundation SPARC(Safety, Privacy & AI Research Centre, IISc), Wadhwani school of AI & Intelligent Systems BITS Pilani, iSPIRT Foundation, IIT Ropar as early foundational research partners. Researchers, engineers, and startups from these partners will collaborate on measurable, verifiable intelligence systems spanning robotics, autonomous infrastructure, mobility, and human–machine interaction.
Purpose-built for high-density compute and simulation, the campus will feature connectivity of up to 400 Gbps to major AI cloud platforms with sub-millisecond latency, enabling large-scale experimentation without data bottlenecks. Over the next 36 months, the initiative will expand beyond the Superpark into a broader AI City testbed — enabling Indian and global organisations to test and deploy AI systems in dynamic urban-scale environments.
Speaking at the Summit, Umakant Soni, Co-Founder and CEO of Bharat1.AI, said,
“We are at an inflection point in the AI revolution. Intelligence is moving out of labs and into the fabric of society. Scaling systems without validating them in complex, real-world environments is a risk we cannot afford. Bharat1.AI is our moonshot for humanity — a commitment to build real world foundational intelligence that is safe, verifiable, and aligned with human values. The B1 AI Superpark is the first step toward creating a city-scale validation framework where agentic and physical AI can evolve responsibly, not just powerfully.”
Industry leaders view the initiative as a structural step forward for India’s AI ecosystem. Commenting on the significance of the announcement,
Prashanth Prakash, Padma Shri awardee and Founding Partner at Accel, said,
“India & specially Bangalore has long been recognised as deep technology talent and startup hub with close connections to global innovation ecosystem. What this initiative signals is something more profound — the willingness to build the cognitive infrastructure for scaling AI impact for everyone. City-scale validation environments are where foundational breakthroughs will happen with world models . By combining research depth, innovation talent, and real-world data, Bharat1.AI is positioning India not just as a participant in the AI revolution, but as a place where AI for global south can be responsibly written.”
The Bharat1.AI initiative is co-founded by Umakant Soni, Subhashis Banerjee, and Sireesh Kupendra, bringing together expertise across AI research, venture investing, and large-scale infrastructure development.
With this announcement, Bharat1.AI aims to create an ecosystem where capital, research, and infrastructure converge to build foundational intelligence systems from India—designed not only for technological advancement, but for societal alignment.
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