Sarvam AI unveils multilingual LLM; tepid response poses questions over India’s AI chops

Indian artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sarvam AI, the first company picked by the government to build a sovereign foundational model under the India AI Mission, dropped its multilingual open-source large language model (LLM) Sarvam M last week. It claims the LLM has achieved benchmarks across mathematics, programming, and a range of Indian languages.

But the launch has thrown up questions about the country’s AI scene, with the model getting only a few hundred downloads in the first two days.

Let’s take a deep dive to understand why.

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