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Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
After Sarvam.ai, Soket AI, Gnani.ai, Gan.ai to now build foundation AI models, says IndiaAI Mission
The IndiaAI Mission on Friday announced Soket AI , , and will be developing foundation artificial intelligence (AI) models apart from , which was initially selected. ET had reported this more than a month ago. Soket AI will develop an open source 120 billion parameter foundation model optimised for the country's linguistic diversity targetting sectors such as defence, healthcare and education. will build a 14 billion parameter voice AI foundation model delivering multilingual, real-time speech processing with advanced reasoning capabilities. will create a 70 billion parameter multilingual foundation model targeting superhuman text-to-speech (TTS) model capabilities. The IndiaAI Mission also said that 34,333 GPUs are now available on the IndiaAI Compute portal. These include GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, AWS, and Intel. The offering comprises 15,100 H100 Nvidia GPUs, 8,192 Nvidia B200 GPUs, 4,812 Nvidia H200 GPUs, and 1,973 Nvidia L40S GPUs. The other GPU variants each comprise fewer than 1,000 or 500 in number. All seven technically qualified bidders in the second round of the GPU tender are empanelled, it said. Live Events The seven empanelled bidders are Cyfuture India, Ishan Infotech, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, Netmagic IT Services (NTT GDC India), Sify Digital Services, Vensysco Technologies, and Yotta Data Services. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories 367 datasets have been uploaded on AI Kosh, Vaishnaw revealed. AI Kosh is the government's platform that provides a repository of datasets, models and use cases to enable AI innovation. It also features AI sandbox capabilities. IndiaAI Mission on May 16 had said that it has received 506 foundation AI proposals across the three phases. Given the overwhelming response and continued interest, the mission has decided to extend the deadline for submissions under phase 3 of the call for proposals. The earlier deadline was April 30. 'Further dates for submission of proposals, the acceptance of new applications post April 30, will be announced subsequently, as per requirements, once the examination of proposals already submitted has been completed," IndiaAI said on its website. As part of the first phase of approvals, was selected to initiate the development of an indigenous foundational model. Sarvam's multimodal, multi-scale model will have 70 billion parameters. Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan had said on April 26 that the model will be completed in six months. Capable of reasoning, designed for voice, and fluent in Indian languages, Sarvam's model will be ready for secure, population-scale deployment, the startup had said in a statement. According to cofounder Pratyush Kumar, Sarvam is developing three model variants -- Sarvam-Large for advanced reasoning and generation, Sarvam-Small for real-time interactive applications, and Sarvam-Edge for compact on-device tasks. Sarvam will get access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) for six months from the IndiaAI Mission's common compute cluster to train its model, people in the know had said. 'We are collaborating with AI4Bharat at IIT-Madras, a leader in Indian language AI research, to build these models,' Kumar had said.
Time of India
16-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
IndiaAI receives 506 foundation AI model proposals
Live Events The country's push to build artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities is getting an overwhelming response, with IndiaAI Mission on Friday revealing it has received 506 foundation AI proposals across the three the overwhelming response and continued interest, the mission has decided to extend the deadline for submissions under phase 3 of the call for proposals. The earlier deadline was April 30.'Further dates for submission of proposals, the acceptance of new applications post April 30, will be announced subsequently, as per requirements, once the examination of proposals already submitted has been completed," IndiaAI said on its part of the first phase of approvals, was selected to initiate the development of an indigenous foundational selections will be announced shortly, IndiaAI model will have 70 billion multi-modal, multi-scale Indian foundation models will open up a "universe of applications" for citizens and enterprises, Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan had said on April 26. The model will be completed in six months, he had of reasoning, designed for voice, and fluent in Indian languages, Sarvam's model will be ready for secure, population-scale deployment, the startup had said in a to cofounder Pratyush Kumar, Sarvam is developing three model variants. These include Sarvam-Large for advanced reasoning and generation, Sarvam-Small for real-time interactive applications, and Sarvam-Edge for compact on-device will get access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPU) for six months from the IndiaAI Mission's common compute cluster to train its model, people in the know had said.'We are collaborating with AI4Bharat at IIT-Madras, a leader in Indian language AI research, to build these models,' Kumar had said.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
AI-academia tango: The global leaders
For instance, IIT Madras researchers-turned-startup founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar of Sarvam AI were recently selected to build Indian language foundational models under the IndiaAI Mission. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads While the research to product path is less trodden in India, shifts are underway. With starting up becoming increasingly popular and young people having a growing appetite for both research, innovation and risk, things may be changing. For instance, IIT Madras researchers-turned-startup founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar of Sarvam AI were recently selected to build Indian language foundational models under the IndiaAI Mission. ET looks at AI researchers from top universities around the world who went from lab to launch, starting and supporting AI businesses
New Indian Express
02-05-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Investors are now more focused on AI start-ups: Tracxn
BENGALURU: With Artificial Intelligence (AI) gaining significant traction across various industries, investments in these start-ups are also increasing. According to data sourced from market intelligence firm Tracxn, the Indian AI sector includes 7,114 start-ups that have collectively raised $23 billion in equity funding so far. Recently, Sarvam AI became the first company to receive government support to build an indigenous Artificial Intelligence LLM (large language model). Sarvam, an artificial intelligence company, has demonstrated proven capability in developing foundational models proficient in Indian languages. Backed by top investors including Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures, it has so far raised equity funding of $53.6 million. Vivek Raghavan, Co-founder of Sarvam, said that they are ready to build AI that reaches every corner of the country. "Our goal is to build multi-modal, multi-scale foundation models from scratch. When we do, a universe of applications unfolds. For citizens, this means interacting with AI that feels familiar, not foreign. For enterprises, this means unlocking intelligence without sending their data beyond borders," he said.
Economic Times
26-04-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
Sarvam AI selected to build indigenous foundational model under IndiaAI Mission
ETtech (L-R) Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission; S Krishnan, secretary, Meity; Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister, electronics and IT; Vivek Raghavan, cofounder, Sarvam AI; Pratyush Kumar, cofounder, Sarvam AI. Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI is the first startup selected to build an indigenous foundational model under the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI Mission, the government announced on model will be completed in six months, said cofounder Vivek Raghavan at an event where the announcement was made. Sarvam will get access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPU) for six months from the IndiaAI Mission's common compute cluster to train its model, people in the know said.'This model will have 70 billion parameters and many innovations in programming as well as engineering, with which a 70 billion parameter (model) can compete with some of the best in the world,' said union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, explaining the reasons for selecting on last Thursday reported that the startup backed by investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures and Peak XV Partners could be among the first batch of companies to be shortlisted to receive incentives under the IndiaAI Mission to build frontier AI models. The government has received more than 400 applications to build Indian models. Capable of reasoning, designed for voice, and fluent in Indian languages, Sarvam's model will be ready for secure, population-scale deployment, the startup said in a part of the sovereign large language model proposal, Sarvam is developing three model variants, cofounder Pratyush Kumar said. These include Sarvam-Large for advanced reasoning and generation, Sarvam-Small for real-time interactive applications and Sarvam-Edge for compact on-device tasks. 'We are collaborating with AI4Bharat at IIT-Madras, a leader in Indian language AI research, to build these models,' said Kumar. Both Raghavan and Kumar were part of AI4Bharat before branching out to set up the startup in multi-modal, multi-scale Indian foundation models will open up a 'universe of applications' for citizens and enterprises, said Raghavan.
