Sarvam AI Chosen for India’s First Indigenous LLM
Why in the news
Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Bengaluru’s Sarvam AI would be the first startup to get official backing to build an indigenous large language model.
Key facts
- Sarvam AI, Bengaluru, founded in mid-2023, is the first startup backed to build an indigenous LLM.
- Announced at the launch of the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) guidelines.
- Under the IndiaAI Mission it gets 400 GPUs from the 14,000 acquired, for six months.
Planned model
- Fluent in Indian languages, voice-first, capable of complex reasoning and built for secure, population-scale use.
Related initiatives
- AI Kosh portal hosts over 350 datasets of India-specific data.
- Tools for the India AI Safety Institute are nearing completion.
Significance
- Step towards sovereign AI for Indian languages and self-reliance in critical AI technologies.
Exam angle
- Mission: IndiaAI Mission; GPUs 400 of 14,000.
- Term: LLM – an AI program trained on vast text data to understand and generate text.