AI firm Sarvam Unveiled a Blend of Open Source and Enterprise Products

Nitin Konde

Aug 14, 2024 — 3 min read

Sarvam AI Launches Full-Stack GenAI Platform

As part of its full-stack Generative AI (GenAI) platform, Sarvam AI, an AI startup based in Bengaluru, released a suite of products recently. These solutions cater to both enterprise usage and open source communities.

With the backing of investors like Lightspeed and Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India), the company said that its upcoming products will support 10 Indian languages—Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, and Bengali—and be voice-enabled to run a variety of jobs.

During an interview with a media outlet, Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan said that the full-stack GenAI platform has been developed and deployed in collaboration with prominent industrial and technological partners. The product mix unveiled includes A1, Sarvam Models, Sarvam Agents, Shuka1.0, Sarvam 2B, and Sarvam Models.

Products and their usage

With their multilingual speech capabilities, the initial product, Sarvam Agents, will provide clients with the ability to communicate with agents through phone calls, WhatsApp, or in-app chat. Additionally, they will have the capability to act and make judgements in response to customer inputs. Businesses in industries such as banking, law, consumer products, telecommunications, media, and technology will be able to take advantage of the voice agents for as little as one rupee a minute.

Another offering is an open source large-language model (LLM) named Sarvam 2B. According to Sarvam, the LLM can efficiently carry out targeted tasks in ten Indian languages thanks to its training on an internal dataset consisting of four trillion tokens.

Meta, a digital giant, has an open source Llama 8B language model; their third product, Shuka1.0, will be an audio extension that supports Indian language usage. This product will also be available as open source.

Additionally, a product titled "Sarvam Models" will be made accessible, which contains the Indic language models utilised in the development of Sarvam Agents. Application programming interfaces (APIs) will now be made available for these models. As part of Sarvam's developer API platform, developers will have access to models for document parsing, speech synthesis, translation, and speech recognition.

With tools like regulatory chat, document creation, redaction, and data extraction, the fifth product, 'A1', is a generative AI workbench made for solicitors to improve their skills.

Enhancing the growth with partnership

Yotta, Nvidia, Exotel, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are some of the companies that Sarvam will team up with to power these offerings. During an event, Vishal Dhupar, Nvidia's managing director for South Asia, said that the Sarvam stack will be powered by Nvidia's DGX infrastructure.

The Beckn Foundation and the financial technology company Pine Labs will be Sarvam's partners. Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), a government-backed e-commerce network, is powered by the Beckn Protocol.

A rival to Sarvam, Krutrim AI, which has backing from Matrix, has recently launched a number of offerings, including GPU-as-a-service, cloud hosting for large language models, and access to other open source models. In May, Krutrim—which is part of the Ola group headed by Bhavish Aggarwal—also released consumer-facing smartphone applications for the Krutrim AI assistant.