Bengaluru AI startup Sarvam has been chosen to develop India's first sovereign large language model (LLM). The startup has been chosen by the Government of India under the IndiaAI Mission. As part of the one-of-a-kind initiative, Sarvam will receive the compute resources required to develop an indigenous foundational model

The model will be designed to handle reasoning tasks while operating through voice commands and delivering multiple Indian language responses fluently. The company declares his model is expected to be ready for secure and large-scale deployment.

According to the company, “We are humbled by the responsibility bestowed upon us to build India’s sovereign model, and we are ready to build AI that reaches every corner of the country. This is a crucial step toward building critical national AI infrastructure. Our goal is to build multi-modal, multi-scale foundation models from scratch. When we do, a universe of applications unfolds,” said Dr Vivek Raghavan, Co-founder of Sarvam.

Development and deployment of the indigenous model together with optimization processes will happen within Indian boundaries using domestic infrastructure. The IndiaAI Mission aims to establish strategic autonomy through domestic innovation which will secure Indian leadership in AI development during upcoming years.

“Building an AI ecosystem for India has always been core to Sarvam’s mission, where our research, technology, and models empower builders to create solutions for the country. As part of the Sovereign LLM proposal, we are developing three model variants Sarvam-Large for advanced reasoning and generation, Sarvam-Small for real-time interactive applications, and Sarvam-Edge for compact on-device tasks,” said Dr Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder of Sarvam.

Sarvam has established itself as a capable organization in developing foundational models which operate in Indian languages. Since its beginning as a research facility the company has progressed toward becoming the core infrastructure of Sovereign AI which sustains government agencies and nonprofit organizations together with enterprises. Sarvam's developed solutions exist to fulfill Indian operational requirements with scalable cost-friendly features.