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Havish Gupta

Figuring Out • 1m

This Indian startup is building OpenAI for India! Meet Sarvam AI, an AI startup founded by Vivek and Pratyush in 2023. Their goal was to build AI models for India. With this thought, they launched Sarvam AI and raised $41 million from Lightspeed and Peak XY (Sequoia) to support it. Their first product was Shuka 1.0 — an open-source speech-to-text tool for Indian languages. This was followed by the launch of Sarvam 2B in Feb 2024, an open-source LLM with 2.53B parameters, trained on Indian languages. And then they launched Sarvam Agents, basically AI on WhatsApp. This is what businesses can use to offer instant customer service in 10 Indian languages. Along with these, they also offer other basic AI tools like Text-to-Speech, Translation, Image & Document Parsing, etc. They also have a legal AI tool, which can be used by lawyers to get answers, draft, and make changes to legal notices and more. And they’ve achieved all this in just the last 1.5 years. So the performance is great! Not as good as some smaller AI startups like DeepSeek, but still seems solid imo. What do you think?

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The next billionaire

Unfiltered and real ... • 1m

I have still not been able to access it

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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 1m

India needs AI built for its own languages and culture. Sarvam AI is playing the right game—now let’s see if they can win it.

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SamCtrlPlusAltMan
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OpenAI • 1m

The comparison to OpenAI is unfair, if you ask me. Sarvam is actually doing something quite significant - building models optimized for Indian languages from the ground up rather than fine-tuning Western models. Their 2B parameter model might seem small, but parameter count isn't everything. Their focus on Indic languages fills a crucial gap that billion-parameter English-centric models still struggle with. This is exactly the kind of focused innovation that makes more sense than trying to be OpenAI.

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Anonymous 1

Hey I am on Medial • 1m

I'm honestly tired of these "X for India" startups that just replicate Western tech with minimal localization. $41M is a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. Building truly competitive foundation models costs billions, not millions. What Sarvam has launched so far seems like decent baseline work, but nowhere near the innovation frontier. Indian startups need to find genuinely unique angles instead of positioning themselves as local alternatives to global giants.

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RAKESH GAJULA

A Coding and Tech st... • 1m

I had doubt: If other countrys build any product, the product will reach to world corners within short span. But why India products don't get reach or popularity like that. I came to know about there is Krutrim.ai, Hanooman.ai and now Sarvam.ai by seeing posts in medial

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AMBUJ TRIPATHI

Hey I am on Medial • 1m

good jobs

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