The IndiaAI Foundation Model pillar within the mission aims to develop and deploy indigenous foundational models trained on India-specific data. It has selected three new start-ups for building the model.
Since the call for proposals launch, 506 proposals have been received till April 30, 2025. On April 26, 2025, Sarvam AI was selected to build India’s Sovereign LLM Ecosystem, developing an open source 120 billion parameter artificial intelligence (AI) model to enhance governance and public service access through use cases like “2047: Citizen Connect” and “AI4Pragati”. This follows the earlier launch of the Sarvam-1 model (2 billion parameters) and Sarvam-M (24 billion parameters) model with hybrid reasoning capabilities.
Three more proposals have been selected following a rigorous multi-stage expert evaluation:
- Soket AI will develop India’s first open-source 120 billion parameter foundation model optimized for the country’s linguistic diversity, targeting sectors such as defense, healthcare, and education.
- Gnani AI will build a 14 billion parameter Voice AI foundation model delivering multilingual, real-time speech processing with advanced reasoning capabilities.
- Gan AI will create a 70 billion parameter multilingual foundation model targeting “Superhuman text-to-speech (TTS)” capabilities to surpass current global leaders.
