Tamil Nadu announces $1.2B sovereign AI research park at Digital Sangam, partnering with Sarvam AI. 20MW AI data center. First sovereign AI research park in India. State-level commitment to indigenous AI compute and multilingual model development.
Odisha signs $2.3B MoU with Sarvam AI for a Sovereign AI Capacity Hub. 25,000 GPUs, 50MW facility. Largest single sovereign AI commitment by an Indian state. Part of Sarvam's full-stack sovereign AI platform selected under MeitY's IndiaAI Mission with 4,096 government-subsidized H100 GPUs.
Sarvam AI releases Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B foundation models. 105B parameters, 128K context window, 9B active parameters per token (mixture of experts). Trained on 20+ Indian languages. $41M funding. First Indian sovereign model at competitive parameter scale.
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI nears $300-350M Series funding at $1.5-1.55B valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners leads, with Nvidia, Amazon, and Prosperity7 Ventures participating. Largest pure-play Indian AI capital infusion to date.