The Government of Bihar has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ConveGenius.AI to develop an AI infrastructure stack that will be built and governed within the state, with the government retaining control over data, AI governance and policy controls.
The MoU was signed in Patna on August 21 in the presence of Bihar IT Minister Shri Nitish Mishra, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Information Technology Shahnawaz Ahmed Niyazee and Jairaj Bhattacharya, Co-founder and CEO, ConveGenius.AI.
The proposed infrastructure will provide a foundation for AI models and services built around Bihar-specific data and requirements. ConveGenius.AI will establish the infrastructure within the state, while governance, data ownership and policy controls will remain with the Bihar government.
A central component will be B-ONT, an ontology designed as a unified knowledge graph covering the state’s schemes and services. The architecture is intended to allow AI agents to navigate information across government departments and support citizens in accessing schemes and services.
The ontology is planned as a state asset that can support multiple AI agents and services across departments. The companies said this could enable cross-department service delivery and the development of new public-service capabilities on a shared knowledge foundation.
“Marrying education, skilling, with the capability of sovereign AI is going to be a gamechanger,” said Jairaj Bhattacharya, Co-founder and CEO, ConveGenius.AI. “From our perspective, we are excited about building sovereign AI, and also semantic ontology for Bihar, which is going to be Bihar’s asset that will connect to various departments in the state.”
The partnership also includes an education and skilling component. The proposed AI infrastructure is intended to support contextual skilling programmes for young people, as well as help workers, technicians and enterprises adopt AI capabilities.
ConveGenius.AI said the initiative builds on its more than 12 years of experience deploying technology infrastructure across Indian states, particularly in education. The company plans to extend that experience into AI infrastructure covering education, skills and citizen services.
The company said it will draw on technology capabilities from partners including AWS, Adobe, Intel, Google and Snowflake while maintaining a focus on local context and state-level governance.
The proposed Bihar AI stack is intended to create a common technological and knowledge foundation across departments, with the stated objective of strengthening state-level control over AI, developing local capabilities and improving access to government services.