India, April 26 -- The Centre has picked Bengaluru-based GenAI startup Sarvam AI to build India's first homegrown sovereign large language model (LLM) under the IndiaAI Mission.

Sarvam said in a statement that it will receive a dedicated compute infrastructure to build the model from scratch. The model will focus on reasoning, support voice-based tasks and work fluently across Indian languages. It is being designed for secure, population-scale use.

Notably, the LLM will be fully developed, deployed and optimised within the country, using local talent and infrastructure.

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