Sarvam’s $10-billion AI gamble faces the frontier test

Newly minted AI unicorn Sarvam’s ambition to build a foundation model comparable with the latest offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic is no longer constrained only by money. The company has raised around $350 million cumulatively, including an extended $75 million Series B round from Nvidia in August, and co-founder and CEO Pratyush Kumar believes $10 billion invested today could take Sarvam to the current AI frontier by Independence Day next year. The harder question, experts say, is whether Sarvam can remain at the frontier as the benchmark keeps moving.