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India's Sarvam AI raises $234 million funding at $1.5 billion valuation; looks to challenge China, US

Posted on: Jun 16, 2026 08:05 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
India's Sarvam AI raises $234 million funding at $1.5 billion valuation; looks to challenge China, US
INdian unreal intelligence service business firm Sarvam AI said on mon it had raised $234 billion as part of a targeted broader funding round as it looks to roll out models that can challenge Chinese and US rivals.The AI startup made waves in the world’s most populous country this year when it released two large language models that it said were trained from scratch in India.Also Read I The switch India doesn’t holdIts models are designed to work across 22 Indian languages and are accessible through voice commands, which it hopes will give it a leg-up against global competitors.Sarvam AI said in a statement it had raised $234 million “in the first close of its $300 million Series B”, giving it a valuation of $1.5 billion.Indian IT giant HCLTech and venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners invested in the current round, which also included existing investors such as Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures.Also Read I AP to join hands with Google in AI and digital governance projects“We are going to push hard across every layer of the company, but the thing that excites me most right now is our shot at building frontier-class AI systems from India,” co-founder Pratyush Kumar said in a statement.“Country of India scale cannot rent intelligence. We have to build it ourselves,” he said.Also Read I AI compute is becoming a question of choice, not just raw power: Intel’s Anil Nanduri | HT Tech InsiderSo-called sovereign AI has become a priority for nations hoping to reduce their dependence on US and Chinese platforms while ensuring that systems respect local regulations, including on data privacy.

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