Sarvam AI unveils multilingual LLM; tepid response poses questions over India’s AI chops

Indian artificial intelligence (AI) startup Sarvam AI, the first company picked by the government to build a sovereign foundational model under the India AI Mission, dropped its multilingual open-source large language model (LLM) Sarvam M last week. It claims the LLM has achieved benchmarks across mathematics, programming, and a range of Indian languages.