

Sarvam to launch ChatGPT-like app with limited access soon
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sarvam AI, the IIT Madras-incubated artificial intelligence startup that launched three foundational models on Wednesday, will seek commercial success with a ChatGPT-like application, which it plans to launch soon. This application, Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan told Mint in an interview, is part of the company’s long-term monetization efforts as it looks to start generating revenue.
However, the approach, Raghavan claimed, is not quite in line with what its Big Tech counterparts have done—be it with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s AI integrations into WhatsApp, or Anthropic’s Claude. "We are building an app based on our own foundational models, which we will be launching very soon. But this will not be quite at the same scale as ChatGPT or Gemini.
The big apps all offer their services for free to unlimited users, which requires a lot of capital. We can’t quite keep up with that scale of capital, so we’ll have to find a way to work around it—be it in a limited-access way, or some other method," Raghavan said. On Wednesday, Sarvam launched three foundational models of varying sizes—3 billion, 30 billion, and 105 billion data parameters.
Foundational models are artificially intelligent algorithms built from scratch that are trained on vast troves of data to comprehend speech in English and generate results accordingly. Generative AI burst onto the scene and changed the global tech world after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for public access in October 2022. Since then, established tech companies have been disrupted, while OpenAI has grown from a nonprofit research lab to a $850 billion valuation.
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