{"id":994269,"date":"2026-02-23T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994269"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:13:56","slug":"frugal-sarvam-ai-did-a-deepseek-with-just-40-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/23\/frugal-sarvam-ai-did-a-deepseek-with-just-40-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frugal\u2019 Sarvam AI did a DeepSeek with just 40 researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarvam AI has built its foundational models from the ground up with a lean team and limited compute, positioning itself as a frugal but ambitious Indian AI lab, said Pratyush Kumar, co-founder. He said the company trained multiple models internally, without relying on any external technology stack. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DeepSeek had around 5,000 researchers working on its models, whereas we did it with 40 researchers,&#8221; Kumar told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarvam AI has built its foundational models from the ground up with a lean team and limited compute, positioning itself as a frugal but ambitious Indian AI lab, said Pratyush Kumar, co-founder. He said the company trained multiple models internally, without relying on any external technology stack. &#8220;DeepSeek had around 5,000 researchers working on its models, whereas we did it with 40 researchers,&#8221; Kumar told ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}