New Delhi, April 26 -- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), led by Ashwini Vaishnaw, has selected Sarvam AI to build India's first sovereign large language model (LLM) under the IndiaAI Mission. According to the homegrown AI startup, the new foundation model will be capable of reasoning, designed for speech, fluent in Indian languages and will be deployed on a large scale.

Saravam AI will receive 4086 H100 GPUs for 6 months to build an indigenous model from scratch, the Bengaluru-based startup told Mint.

"We are confident that Sarvam's models will be competitive with global models," IT minister Vaishnaw said on Saturday.

"As part of the Sovereign LLM proposal, we are developing three model variants: Sarvam-Large ...