Bhashini migrates to Yotta's sovereign AI cloud, gains 40% performance boost and 30% cost cut

Bhashini migrates to Yotta's sovereign AI cloud; sees 40% performance boost, 30% cost dip - The Economic Times

AI-based multilingual translation platform Bhashini has completed its migration from a global hyperscaler to Yotta Data Services' domestic sovereign AI cloud, a move that has enhanced its performance by nearly 40% and reduced operational costs by up to 30%, top officials said. The migration to Yotta's infrastructure marks a significant step in the push for digital sovereignty, ensuring that critical AI workloads and data remain within the country's jurisdiction. Bhashini is an AI-powered language translation platform developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) under its National Language Translation Mission. Speaking at 'The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues' event here, Sunil Gupta, cofounder and CEO of Yotta Data Services, said the project was not merely a "lift and shift" exercise but a complete architectural transformation. He stated that Yotta not only successfully migrated and stabilised the platform but also significantly enhanced its performance by almost 40%, while simultaneously bringing down costs by 20 to 30%. "Our teams had to re-engineer multiple layers of the stack. We implemented high-performance GPU clusters powered by NVIDIA H100 processors with optimised pipelines for speech and language models. We shifted to an open-source, containerised, and cloud-agnostic architecture. "We not only successfully migrated and stabilised the platform but also significantly enhanced its performance by almost 40%. We made the platform completely self-sufficient and vendor-neutral. Today, Bhashini is running fully on a sovereign AI cloud stack," Gupta noted. He noted that the same sovereign cloud architecture hosting Bhashini is now being adopted across the government ecosystem, including by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). Citing the efficacy of the infrastructure, he mentioned DOT's (Department of Telecommunications) International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System running on the cloud that blocked nearly 1.5 crore spoof calls within the first 24 hours of its launch in October. Amitabh Nag, CEO of Digital India Bhashini Division, highlighting the platform's massive scale, said it has completed approximately 5 billion inferences since the platform's launch in 2024. The system currently handles about 15 million translation requests daily, servicing customers and use cases ranging from patient-doctor communication to government services. Yotta Data Services, a Hiranandani Group firm, provides end-to-end digital transformation services, including cloud and AI cloud solutions, data centre hosting, connectivity, cybersecurity services, cyber-workspaces, managed applications, and a broad range of managed IT services. The company operates its cloud regions at hyperscale data centre parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Yotta has launched Shakti Cloud, a platform that uses advanced AI capabilities, offering enterprises a full suite of AI services, such as AI labs, AI workspaces, and serverless inferencing.

Yotta and BHASHINI Collaborate to Enable Sovereign AI Cloud, Showcasing India's Readiness for Population-Scale AI

* The joint initiative establishes a national reference architecture for Indian organizations transitioning to sovereign, population-scale AI platforms. Yotta Data Services, India's leading sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform services provider, today announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI's end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation on Yotta's Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud. The key milestone closely aligns with IndiaAI Mission objectives and represents a major step forward in India's journey towards a self-reliant and scalable AI capabilities. With this development, BHASHINI now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, models, and citizen interactions remain within India's jurisdiction. This landmark development was showcased at 'The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues', an official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by Yotta & Digital India BHASHINI Division, and captured in the 'Sovereign AI Cloud Transformation Report' launched at the event. The report draws from a real-world deployment at the Maha Kumbh 2025, the world's largest religious gathering, where Bhashini's multilingual AI services were tested at population scale. Powered by Yotta's NVIDIA H100-enabled Shakti Cloud, the platform delivered real-time translation and voice-based assistance in 11+ Indian languages, including the multilingual assistant 'Kumbh Sah'AI'yak'. The deployment demonstrates how national digital public goods can be migrated from hyperscaler environments to indigenous cloud infrastructure while delivering up to 40 percent performance improvement, 20 to 30 percent cost savings, and sustained 99.99 percent uptime. This was achieved with zero data loss across more than 200 TiB of data and over 3.5 billion files. Commenting on the development, Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; CEO, IndiaAI Mission; and Director General, National Informatics Centre, said, "The successful migration of Bhashini to indigenous cloud and GPU platforms demonstrates that India can build, scale, and secure its sovereign AI systems for the public good. It underscores the IndiaAI Mission's vision of developing sovereign compute capacity, models and deploying AI applications that are responsive to India's unique requirements, including the delivery of reliable, real-time, voice-based services at population scale." Highlighting the platform impact, Shri Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division, said, "The move to Yotta's sovereign AI cloud gives BHASHINI greater control, resilience, and scalability as it continues to serve India's linguistic diversity. This transformation strengthens our ability to deliver inclusive, real-time multilingual services and marks a major step forward for Digital Public Infrastructure in AI. It will also serve as a blueprint for future deployments as we transition to a fully sovereign stack." Ms. Kavita Bhatia, COO, IndiaAI Mission, said, "BHASHINI's transition to a fully sovereign AI cloud is a significant milestone in IndiaAI Mission's effort to build population-scale AI on Indian infrastructure. It demonstrates that national digital public goods can be securely scaled on indigenous, open platforms without compromising performance. This deployment sets a strong blueprint for future public sector AI initiatives." Commenting on the milestone, Shri Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta Data Services, said, "Yotta's successful deployment of BHASHINI on Shakti cloud marks a defining moment for India's data sovereignty journey. This transition highlights that hyperscale, mission-critical AI platforms can be built and operated entirely on sovereign infrastructure, without compromise. the project validates India's ability to run advanced AI workloads on open, interoperable architectures and reflects Yotta's capability to build and operate digital infrastructure at national scale." Executed over a two-to-three-month period, the migration covered BHASHINI's complete AI stack, including multilingual datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage. The new architecture adopts open-source, cloud-agnostic components, reinforcing long-term vendor neutrality, and strategic autonomy. The deployed environment has been designed as a modular and reusable reference framework that can be adopted across ministries, public sector units, and large-scale national programs. It provides a clear blueprint for hyperscaler-to-Indian-cloud transitions and reinforces India's ambition to position AI as a secure, inclusive, and sovereign public utility that supports economic growth, digital inclusion, and technological leadership. About Yotta Data Services Yotta Data Services is a sovereign cloud infrastructure and platform services provider, offering cloud, AI cloud solutions, data center hosting, connectivity, and cybersecurity services; cyber-workspaces; managed applications; and a wide range of managed IT services. Yotta operates its cloud regions at its hyperscale data center parks in Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Greater Noida (Delhi NCR). Yotta's homegrown, open-source-based, feature-rich Sovereign hyperscale cloud, Yntraa, is MeitY empanelled (VCC and GCC) and is also deployed in large government-owned CSPs on a white labelled / PPP model. In addition, Yotta has launched Shakti Cloud, a cutting-edge platform that leverages advanced AI capabilities, providing enterprises with a comprehensive suite of AI services, including AI labs, AI workspaces, serverless inferencing, and access to NVIDIA's NIM services, alongside Kubernetes clusters with GPU resources. Yotta is the only NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) across the APAC region to be part of the NVIDIA Exemplar cloud initiative and is one of only five Reference Architecture Platform NCPs across the world. Yotta has won numerous accolades and certifications, including RBI's cybersecurity framework and localization framework, ISO 27017 for the protection of personal information in public cloud, ISO 27701 for Privacy Information Management (PIMS), PCI-DSS, SOC2-Type 2, and SOC3. BHASHINI is an AI powered language translation platform, bridging literacy, language, and digital divides. At BHASHINI, we are redefining communication through innovative VOICE Multilingual AI Solutions. Our mission is to make language and technology accessible to everyone through voice-first multilingual solutions for seamless communication, the largest co-creation AI platform driving collaboration and innovation, & by breaking language, literacy, and digital barriers for inclusivity. The IndiaAI Mission is a Government of India initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aimed at strengthening India's artificial intelligence ecosystem. The Mission focuses on building robust AI infrastructure, enabling access to compute and data resources, fostering indigenous AI innovation, supporting startups and enterprises, and promoting responsible and inclusive AI adoption. Through strategic partnerships across government, industry, academia, and startups, the IndiaAI Mission seeks to accelerate the development and deployment of AI solutions that drive economic growth, enhance public services, and deliver societal impact at scale.