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Sarvam to Build India’s First Indigenous AI Model
- 30 Apr 2025
- 2 min read
The Indian government has selected Bengaluru-based start-up Sarvam to develop the country’s first homegrown Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Model (LLM) under the IndiaAI Mission.
- The company is developing three model variants: Sarvam-Large (advanced reasoning), Sarvam-Small (real-time applications), and Sarvam-Edge (compact on-device tasks).
- Sarvam will receive 4,000 Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) for six months under the IndiaAI Mission to build a 70 billion parameter AI model.
- The AI model is not expected to be open-sourced, but aims for population-scale deployment, designed to reason and be fluent in Indian languages.
- This comes at a time when China's DeepSeek model, known for its low-cost and open-source nature, has significantly disrupted global AI markets, highlighting the urgency for India to establish its own AI infrastructure..
- IndiaAI Mission: Approved in 2024 under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), the IndiaAI Mission seeks to drive responsible and inclusive growth of India's AI ecosystem.
- IndiaAI Mission includes democratizing computer access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI models, nurturing AI talent, fostering industry collaboration, supporting startup funding, and promoting ethical, socially impactful AI.
| Read more: IndiaAI Mission |
