Why Everyone Is Talking About Sarvam AI?

In select areas, Sarvam AI has proven its capabilities against rivals such as Google Gemini and ChatGPT

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most discussed topics today, as it is set to transform human lives like never before. As compared to countries like the USA and China, it appears that India is a bit late in the game. However, India is catching up fast and is expected to emerge as an AI powerhouse in the coming years. Making it possible are new AI platforms such as Sarvam AI. Let us get more details on this story.

What is Sarvam AI?

Sarvam AI is a leading Indian AI startup, with its headquarters located in Bengaluru. It was founded by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in 2023. Pratyush Kumar is also credited with co-founding AI4Bharat at IIT Madras, which is focused on open-source Indian language AI.

One of the key aspects of Sarvam AI is that it is positioned as India’s sovereign AI ecosystem. This means that all the models, AI infrastructure and platforms have been developed and operated entirely within India. Sarvam AI has full control over the data and is not dependent on a foreign entity. This is a big achievement and ensures availability of AI to a wide audience. Having a sovereign AI ecosystem is quite necessary in an age when everything is getting weaponized.

Key strengths of Sarvam AI

Strong multilingual capabilities – Sarvam AI focuses on developing AI systems that can work in Indian languages. It includes all the 22 officially recognized languages in the country. Sarvam AI ensures a much better experience for users, as it can delve into the finer details such as regional dialects, romanized scripts, accents and cultural nuances.

Full stack generative AI – Sarvam AI is offering a wide range of AI-based services. It includes foundational models as well as a comprehensive range of enterprise tools. The list includes reasoning LLMs, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), translation, voice bots, document intelligence and AI agents.

Sovereign AI platform – This is a critical component, as Sarvam AI is not dependent on any foreign AI systems. As such, it can work independently without any pressure from any external source or government. As data stays within the country, Sarvam AI can be quite useful in critical areas such as defense and research segments.

Key products and services of Sarvam AI

• Sarvam M – This is the early foundational model work.
• Sarvam Translate – This is built using Google’s Gemma 3. It allows high-quality translation for all the 22 official languages in India. In addition to translation, the platform also preserves the long-form content, structure, context and nuance.
• Bulbul – This is a comprehensive text to speech model, which can generate natural voices in various Indian languages.
• Sarvam Vision – This is a 3-billion parameter vision language platform used for OCR / document intelligence. It can recognize scanned documents, bills, manuscripts and archives in various Indian scripts and languages. Some of the results are better than that of Google Gemini 3 Pro and DeepSeek OCR v2.
• Sarvam Arya – This is an enterprise chat / agent platform.
• Sarvam Samvaad – This is an enterprise-grade conversational AI platform meant for building and deploying multilingual voice/text agents.

How to access Sarvam AI?

The official website of Sarvam AI is https://www.sarvam.ai. They also provide regular updates on X (Twitter): @SarvamAI. Some of their enterprise products are available on AWS Marketplace. Sarvam AI is progressing rapidly and is expected to launch their large models in the coming months.