New Delhi. The Government of India has been pointing to an indigenous Large Language Model (LLM) for the last few months. Remind, earlier this year, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav announced that an AI model would be ready in 10 months, which will compete with big players like Chatgpt and Deepsek. But this is not all. In February, during the Paris AI Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India is on the way to develop its Large Language Model (LLM).
And now the country is taking steps to realize it. Under the India AI Mission, the government has finally selected Sarvam to make India’s autonomous Large Language Model (LLM). Sarvam AI of Bengaluru will be the first company to receive government assistance to create a Swadeshi AI Large Language Model (LLM).
Voice will be based and will serve in Indian languages
For the first time, Sarvam is going to get a computing resources dedicated to develop a completely native foundational model. According to the official announcement, this model will have the ability to argue, will be based on voice, serve in Indian languages and will be designed for safe, mass deployment.
The announcement also stated that this model will be made in India itself, which will depend on the domestic infrastructure and the new generation of Indian talent will prepare it. The objective of this initiative is to encourage innovation in the country and strengthen India’s status in the field of artificial intelligence.
India’s LLM model: 3 models of Sarvam
Sarvam, a leading Indian Artificial Intelligence Company, is on a mission to create the foundation of Sovereign AI for India and convert Genai into reality. The company has already proved its ability to develop skilled foundational models in Indian languages. During the announcement, Ashwini Vaishnav said that we are confident that Sarvam models will be able to compete with global models.
Sarvam co-founder Dr. Pratyush Kumar said that we are deeply grateful to the Government of India’s approach and support in advancing AI. Creating AI Ecosystem for India has always been a part of Sarvam’s mission, where our research, technology and models strengthen the solutions for the country.
In addition, she reported that the company is developing three model variants under the Sovereign LLM proposal:
1. Sarvam-Large for advanced logic and generation,
2. Sarvam-Small Real-Time for Interactive Applications, and
3. Sarvam-edge compact for on-device works.
