- Published on May 25, 2025
- In AI Features
Sarvam AI’s Backlash Exposes the Sad State of Indian AI
Much of Sarvam’s criticism comes from comparing it to OpenAI or DeepSeek, while the problem the company is trying to solve is fundamentally different.
- By Mohit Pandey
When India’s most noted AI startup, Sarvam AI (Axonwise Pvt Ltd), released its latest LLM, it prompted discussions around the company’s approach and broader challenges facing India’s AI mission.
One of the first companies to be selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build India’s sovereign foundational LLM, Sarvam AI recently released Sarvam-M, a 24-billion parameter open-weights hybrid language model built on top of Mistral Small.
A breakthrough for Indic AI researchers to build use cases, the model supports 10 different Indian languages, including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, and Malayalam, among others.
But the tepid response—just 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face—received some flak. Deedy Das, an investor at Menlo Ventures, called it “emb
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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