India, Feb. 21 -- Indian AI firm Sarvam has launched a chat app, Indus, as a competitor in the sector, which is witnessing tough competition among OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

"Indus is powered by our 105B sovereign model. It is significantly smaller than the frontier models powering global consumer chat applications today," the Indian firm said in its blog post.

The company said it is currently focussing on accuracy, usefulness, efficiency, and alignment for the Indian context before training bigger foundational models.

The blogpost said: "This is an early release. Indus is evolving, and we're improving it every day. Your feedback will directly shape what it becomes. We're gradually rolling out on a limited compute capacity, so you ...