as I see it

 Okay, let’s admit it. Every time there's some new shiny AI startup in the news, most of us do the same thing:

1. Scan the founder names for “familiar” ones

2. Wait for someone on Twitter to say “Why is India not building this?”

3. Go back to life as usual, hoping someday someone will.

Well, someone finally did.
Enter: Sarvam AI – India’s very own foundation model company. And no, it’s not just another "let’s-fork-LLama-and-call-it-BharatGPT" attempt.

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🌱 What Is Sarvam AI?

Sarvam AI is what happens when really smart people from India say, “Chalo, let’s stop playing support role and build something from scratch — for us, by us.”

They’re building large language models (LLMs) from the ground up, trained on Indian data, Indian languages, and—hopefully—Indian humour too 😜 (though that might be harder to align than LLaMA 3).

Think of it as India’s OpenAI... but with less Silicon Valley smugness and more Chai.

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🇮🇳 Why It Matters (and Why I’m Rooting for It)

• Language-first, not English-only: India isn’t a single-language country (ask any passport form). Sarvam’s models are being designed for multilingual use, not as an afterthought, but from Day 1.

• Cultural context: You can’t expect ChatGPT to know the difference between “rakhi” and “raakh.” Or why “daant diya” is a real thing. Sarvam can.

• Developer-friendly tools: They’re not just doing research papers for bragging rights. They’re creating APIs, tools, infra – the whole shebang – for devs to build actual usable stuff. Not just AI demos that say "Hi, I am an AI assistant. How may I help you today?"

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🔍 But Let’s Not Get Carried Away

Is it perfect? Not yet.
Is it ambitious? Hell yes.
Will it succeed? Depends.

On funding, on execution, on adoption... and on whether we, the users, the builders, the curious minds, actually try the damn thing.

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🧠 My 2 Paise

I’m not an AI researcher. I don’t write Python scripts for fun (though I’ve broken enough Google Sheets to pretend I do). But I do believe in stories.

And Sarvam’s story? It's the kind we need more of.

• A belief that India can build.

• A bet on Indian languages.

• And a reminder that sometimes, we don’t need to wait for Silicon Valley to validate us.

We just need to start building — and maybe, just maybe, the world will start noticing.

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Go check out Sarvam AI. Not because it’s Indian. But because it’s interesting. And it’s ours.

Until next time,
Prateek
(still waiting for an AI that understands "thoda adjust kar lo yaar")