New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- India's first foundational artificial intelligence models launched on Wednesday, marking a leap for the country targeting a leadership role in the transformative technology sweeping the world.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI, backed by investors such as Peak XV and Vinod Khosla, unveiled three foundational AI models with 3-billion, 30-billion and 105-billion parameters. The company, the first to be funded by the India AI Mission in April last year, said its models can be used through voice commands and are accessible through 22 Indian languages. It also offers agentic AI applications that can execute a range of tasks with minimal human intervention.

Alongside, BharatGen, an IIT Bombay-incubated, government-funded consort...