Sarvam AI, the newly launched artificial intelligence startup which released its Hindi language model ‘OpenHathi’ last week, will soon launch a platform that businesses can leverage for their needs.
Founded by former AI4Bharat researchers Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar in July, Chennai-headquartered Sarvam is planning to release models in other Indian languages in the coming weeks.
“OpenHathi is a very early release,” Kumar told ET in an interview. “Right now, we have released an open model in some form, but we will be releasing it as part of the platform which will have four layers, so that people can start using it.”
He described the four layers of the Sarvam platform as unlocking data, orchestrating application codes around models, building custom models around the data, and figuring out how to run them efficiently on GPUs.
Kumar said education, marketing, e-governance, media and content creation are among the segments where there is interest in using their model. Monetisation will begin at the same time as the launch of the Sarvam platform, he said.
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“These four components need to be available to companies, and our hope is that instead of them trying (to develop) all of these themselves, we can accelerate this journey for them and do this across companies so that the whole economy is able to start adopting genAI at