Indian artificial intelligence (AI) startup ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/sarvam-ai” target=”_blank”>Sarvam AI, the first company picked by the government to build a sovereign foundational model under the ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/india-ai-mission” target=”_blank”>India AI Mission, dropped its multilingual open-source ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/large-language-model” target=”_blank”>large language model (LLM) Sarvam M last week. It claims the LLM has achieved benchmarks across mathematics, programming, and a range of Indian languages.
But the launch has thrown up questions about the country’s AI scene, with the model getting only a few hundred downloads in the first two days.
Let’s take a deep dive to understand why.
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