Sarvam Seeks $250M Funding To Reach Unicorn

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam is reportedly in talks to raise up to $250 million in a funding round led by Nvidia, Accel and HCLTech, according to Moneycontrol. The round could value the company at about $1.5 billion, potentially making Sarvam a unicorn; the startup unveiled Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B LLMs trained in India and open-sourced at the India AI Impact Summit. Developers have noted tooling and deployment hurdles.