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A major initiative that will ensure India’s propulsion into the AI race as the Government has chosen Sarvam AI to develop India’s first AI foundational model on Saturday. The event also announced financial backing and revealed the guidelines of the ECMS scheme, “The ECMS is a horizontal scheme. It will feed into various sectors, electronic, automotive and so on,” the minister said at the event.
The Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that out of 67 proposals, Sarvam AI was chosen in first place to develop the country’s first AI model to compete with the global giants along with a few more tech startups that will join forces. The Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (MeitY) has backed four indigenous tech brands to focus on AI models under an ambitious 10,000 Crore India AI Mission.
According to Economic Times, the frontrunners competing to build the nation’s first LLMs (Large Language Models) are Sarvam AI, Soket AI Labs, Gnani.ai and Gan.ai. The top tech startups are focused to have a cemented runup among some of the global AI modules and tools which Minister Vaishnaw believes would rival established global brands.
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It's official 🇮🇳
— Sarvam AI (@SarvamAI) April 26, 2025
We're proud to announce that Sarvam has been selected by the Government of India under the IndiaAI Mission to build India's sovereign Large Language Model.
Building India's sovereign model from the ground up is a crucial step toward Atmanirbhar Bharat. The… pic.twitter.com/nA4WgQ0aw0
Sarvam AI was founded by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in July 2023. The duo previously worked at Al4Bharat. Sarvam develops a full-stack procedure for Generative Al, that stretches from research-led innovations in training custom AI models to an enterprise-grade platform for authoring and deployment.
Vicke Raghavan, an instrumental mind in building Digital Public Goods (DPGs) like Aadhaar, said that “Sarvam will work with Indian enterprises to co-develop domain-specific Al models leveraging their data”, reports Money Control.
