India Can’t Depend Only On Foreign AI, Must Build Its Own Models: Sarvam AI

AI Models have been increasing all over the globe, and we have some of the major ones like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and a lot more. Now, India has been trying to take an active part in the race but is unable to come up with an AI model that can compete with the giants. On that note, co-founder of homegrown Sarvam AI, Pratyush Kumar, says that India cannot afford to be a passive consumer in the AI era and must urgently build its own frontier-scale AI models if it wants to play a crucial role in the making of global technology rules. At the CII Business Summit, he said Sarvam is now preparing to train its first trillion-parameter AI model within the next nine months, and this could become a major milestone in India's indigenous AI ambitions.

Kumar also said, 'We can rent it for now until we don't have it, but you have to build it. You have to own the destiny around that.' He said that mentioned line in a debate that was focused on whether India should build its own AI models.How AI Is Helping Lawyers Prepare Better For Courtroom Trials The Sarvam boss stated that AI would become the defining intelligence layer across industries, science, governance, and manufacturing, making ownership or foundational models critical for economic value creation. He also warned that India risks repeating mistakes made during earlier technological revolutions. He further said, 'What we saw with steam engine, steel making and the internet, in all these eras, we became users and frankly lost out on key value creation.''This is now the start of a new era, which is going to play out quarter by quarter, Kumar said while revealing that Sarvam AI has already demonstrated a proof of concept showing India can build large-scale AI systems with homegrown data, research, infra, and algorithms.