India, Aug. 2 -- In June, Sarvam AI entered India's unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about Rs.2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B round at a $1.5 Bn valuation. Just a month later, the startup made it clear that the funding was only the beginning of a much bigger ambition.

At its inaugural developer conference, Sarvam Epoch, the startup unveiled its vision that it was no longer content with being known as a builder of Indian-language foundation models. Instead, it now wants to be a full-stack AI venture, providing everything India Inc needs to build, deploy and scale AI - from foundation models and infrastructure to coding copilots, voice agents, document intelligence and workplace applications.

This is a major shift from OpenHathi-v1, the ope...