New Delhi, Aug. 7 -- The country's poster boy for Indic AI models, Sarvam AI, recently unveiled plans for a trillion-plus parameter model even as it launched an India-hosted inference platform, opened a San Francisco research office and has reportedly raised another $75 million in a funding round led by Nvidia Corp., just months after securing $234 million.

The Bengaluru-based AI startup plans to use the money to fund its next-generation AI models for applications such as AI agents, software development and cybersecurity, while expanding the computing capacity needed to deploy them across industries.

That suggests Sarvam AI is positioning itself as India's answer to frontier models and China's emerging crop of open-weight AI labs. It al...