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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 a

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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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