“From 105 Billion to a Trillion: Sarvam AI Is Building Bharat’s Own Intelligence Layer”, BeatsInBrief, 09 Oct 2026.
“Sarvam AI, India’s newest AI unicorn at a $1.5 billion valuation, plans to release a foundation model with more than one trillion parameters, trained from scratch in India, by roughly February 2027. The company announced the plan at its Epoch 2026 conference on 30 July and co-founder Pratyush Kumar restated the target this month. Encouragingly, the ambition rests on working products, a strong funding base and state-backed compute, although the date remains a company goal.
A founding idea with historical weight
Kumar’s argument is rooted in history. India met the steam engine, steel making and the early internet largely as a user and he says it lost out on key value creation as a result. Artificial intelligence, he argues, offers a chance to change that pattern, because the intelligence layer is the main value engine of the modern economy. Renting foreign models works for now, but India should build its own to own its destiny and become a rule maker. Co-founder Vivek Raghavan compares AI’s strategic weight to that of civil nuclear power.
Sarvam defines sovereignty in three parts. These are training and inference in Indian data centres, models pre-trained from first principles and domestic control over auditing and governing the weights…………”
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