Sarvam and three other AI firms in MeitY’s LLM build out first shortlist

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI and three other artificial intelligence (AI) firms, including Soket AI Labs, Gnani.ai and Gan.ai, could be among the first cohort of companies to be selected by the ministry of IT (MeitY) to receive incentives for building frontier AI models under the Rs 10,000-crore IndiaAI Mission, sources said.

Sarvam may receive Rs 200 crore worth of GPU (graphics processing unit) compute power provided by the government for free instead of any monetary award, they said, adding that the final list of awardees is likely to be announced by…