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- Published on June 12, 2025
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Soket AI’s Plan to Build 7 Bn Open Source Indic LLM Within 6 months
Abhishek Upperwal said that the team can scale the small model to 120 billion within 10 months.
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- By Mohit Pandey
After selecting Sarvam AI as the first startup, IndiaAI Mission chose Soket AI Labs, Gnani AI, and Gan AI last month as part of the mission to build India’s sovereign AI.
While Sarvam has already released a few updates and models, others haven’t released anything yet. The companies are yet to receive the promised support from the government (GPUs).
Soket AI Labs, led by CEO Abhishek Upperwal, is quietly building what could become one of India’s most ambitious AI projects: a 120-billion parameter language model trained on India-centric datasets from scratch under its Project EKA. But the journey to this number is anything but linear.
The company plans to keep it open-source and optimise it for sectors such as defence, healthcare, and education.
“It will take
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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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