India's AI Push Escalates: Sarvam's Trillion-Parameter Pledge and a Global Agent Launch

Bengaluru AI unicorn Sarvam announced plans to build a trillion-plus parameter frontier model "right here in India" at its inaugural developer conference, Epoch 2026. The startup, which also launched an India-hosted inference platform called Sarvam Inference, is building an end-to-end AI stack spanning models, infrastructure, and enterprise software. Cofounder Pratyush Kumar said the models are being built from scratch to be competitive in coding, cybersecurity, simulation, and...