‘Sarvam AI to build India’s 1st AI platform in 6 months’ – Times of India-OxBig News Network

NEW DELHI: Lightspeed venture capital-backed Sarvam AI will develop India’s first AI platform in six months, the company’s founder said on Saturday.
Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced the selection of Sarvam AI to develop India’s first GenAI platform. “We are confident that Sarvam’s models will be competitive with global models,” Vaishnaw said.
The minister asked for a timeline for developing the platform from Sarvam founders who committed that it would be done in six months. Government will allocate 400 GPUs to Sarvam for six months for developing India’s own large language models with 70 billion parameters.