Bharat1.AI unveils plan to build humanity-centric AI city In Bengaluru

BENGALURU: Bharat1.AI, a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence infrastructure company, Tuesday announced that it will 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.“The first phase of this vision will take shape through the B1 AI Superpark — a 5,00,000 sqft 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 10,000+ AI researchers & AI innovators from AI startups, Universities, AI research labs and large global and Indian companies by this year end,” the firm announced at the AI summit.The Superpark will bring together leading Indian institutions including The Airawat Research Foundation (IIT Kanpur), SPARC (Safety, Privacy & AI Research Centre, IISc), Wadhwani school of AI & Intelligent Systems (IIT Kanpur), BITS Pilani, iSPIRT Foundation, IIT Ropar as early foundational research partners. Umakant Soni, co-founder and CEO, Bharat1.AI, said: “We’re 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… 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.

”Researchers, engineers, and startups from these partners will collaborate on measurable, verifiable intelligence systems spanning robotics, autonomous infrastructure, mobility, and human–machine interaction, at the superpark.“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 firm said.Purpose-built for high-density compute and simulation, the campus will feature connectivity of up to 400Gbps 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,” the firm said.Prashanth Prakash, founding partner at Accel, said: “India & specially Bengaluru has long been recognised as a 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, he said, 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 the global south can be responsibly written,” he added.The Bharat1.AI is co-founded by Soni, Subhashis Banerjee, and Sireesh Kupendra, bringing together expertise across AI research, venture investing, and large-scale infrastructure development.