Explained: What is India’s Sarvam AI model that Google CEO Sundar Pichai is quite impressed with

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he is impressed with the work done by Sarvam AI. Speaking at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit 2026, Pichai said “The developer energy I find in India every time I travel, it’s bar none, second to none,” adding that the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the country is “thriving”. Pichai specifically highlighted Sarvam AI for developing local AI models tailored to Indian languages and contexts saying “The work Sarvam has done developing local AI models ….I just don’t see any impediments to that, and I think it is very, very well positioned”. The AI startup has recently taken the internet by storm with the company claiming that its AI model has outperformed some of the biggest names in ai, including Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.