Too small to be sovereign?

Sarvam AI has generated a lot of buzz around India’s sovereign AI ambitions, but the question many analysts ask is: is it too small to compete with global AI leaders? Training frontier models like Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT of OpenAI or Anthropic’s Claude, requires tens of thousands of GPUs and billions of dollars. Even companies like Meta and Microsoft spend massively on AI infrastructure – and they keep pushing what AI can do in reasoning, code, and text plus image work.