Bharat1.AI on Tuesday unveiled plans to build what it describes as the world’s first “Humanity-centric AI City” in Bengaluru, aimed at advancing safe and verifiable artificial intelligence systems through real-world testing environments. The announcement was made at the India AI Impact Summit.
The initiative will begin with the development of the B1 AI Superpark, a 500,000 sq. ft. research and innovation campus in Sarjapura designed to host over 10,000 AI researchers, startups, universities, and global technology firms by the end of the year. The facility will support AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference while enabling large-scale experimentation using high-quality multimodal datasets. Bharat1.AI said the campus will feature high-density compute infrastructure with connectivity of up to 400 Gbps and sub-millisecond latency to major AI cloud platforms.
The project will involve research collaborations with institutions including IIT Kanpur, IISc, BITS Pilani, IIT Ropar, and the iSPIRT Foundation, focusing on robotics, autonomous infrastructure, and human–machine interaction systems. Over the next 36 months, the initiative is expected to expand into a city-scale AI testing ecosystem. The announcement could positively influence eastern India’s technology markets, including Kolkata, where growing IT services firms, analytics startups, and academic institutions are expected to benefit from increased collaboration opportunities, AI talent demand, and downstream innovation partnerships linked to the Bengaluru-based research infrastructure.