India, April 9 -- Amid the ongoing global AI race, India must focus on building a 'sovereign AI' ecosystem to ensure autonomy over its data, Sarvam AI cofounder Vivek Raghavan has said.

With GenAI increasingly penetrating diverse sectors, there is an urgent need for sovereign AI, Raghavan said at Inc42's 'The GenAI Summit 2025 today'.

". We have always wanted to think of the concept of sovereign AI . how do you control your own data, your own models and your own compute?" Sarvam AI's cofounder said.

Founded in 2023 by Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, Sarvam AI claims to have launched India's first open source foundational small language model, Sarvam 2B, with a focus on Indic languages. The startup claims that Sarvam 2B is trained with 4 T...