Sarvam To Open Source Its Models Under IndiaAI Mission

Bengaluru-based GenAI startup Sarvam AI will be reportedly open sourcing the models it is training under the IndiaAI Mission.

At an open source software meeting at IIT Delhi, IndiaAI Mission chief executive Abhishek Singh said that the LLMs sponsored by the central government will be made open source.

Sarvam, which isbuilding India’s first homegrown sovereign LLM, has confirmed the development to ET. The AI startup’s cofounder Vivek Raghavan said that the open sourcing will be done under permissible licences.

Sarvam has received the highest subsidy allocated under the IndiaAI Mission so far at INR 98.68 Cr against a bill of INR 246.71 Cr for access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs for six months, the report said citing IndiaAI website.

Notably, Sarvam’s model will focus on reasoning, support voice-based tasks and work fluently across Indian languages and is being designed for secure, population-scale use. It would be fully developed, deployed and optimised within the country, using local talent and infrastructure.

In April, Sarvam said that it will receive a dedicated compute infrastructure to build the model from scratch. However, a MoneyControl report last month said that theCentre is offering a 100% subsidy on compute infrastructure costs to Sarvam AIand other companies building foundational AI models.

(The story will be updated soon)

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