Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Sarvam's open-source bet: what Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B actually are In February 2026, Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI released two foundational large language models under an open licence: Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B. These are not the speech recognition or transliteration tools Sarvam built its early reputation on. They are full-stack generative language models — trained from scratch to handle the breadth of India's official language landscape, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, and a further 16 of the country's 22 scheduled languages. The distinction matters. Earlier open-source Indian AI releases tended to be fine-tuned adaptations of Western base models — essentially Llama or Mistral with additional multilingual data layered on top. Sarvam's 2026 release claims a…
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