India's AI Stack Gets Real: Sarvam's Sovereign Play, UPI's MDR Debate, and Voice AI Funding

Sarvam AI launched Epoch Builder Edition, a developer platform for building India-centric large language models with 7B and 70B parameter multilingual LLMs supporting over 10 Indian languages. The platform, available in private preview from August 2026, gives banks, government departments, and startups access to base models, GPU clusters, curated Indian datasets covering law, governance, and finance, plus on-premises deployment options. This is the clearest signal yet that India's...