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How many languages does India's sovereign LLM support?

Sarvam AI's model, the sovereign large language model India's government commissioned in April 2025, is built for 22 Indian languages and trained end-to-end on Indian infrastructure.

By capsrow · Updated July 2026

India's IndiaAI Mission selected Sarvam to build a national model on national data, rather than rely on one rented from abroad.

Building for 22 languages, not just English, is the point: a sovereign model has to speak the country it serves.

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Sources. Sarvam AI, April 2025