India’s Sarvam AI: Bengaluru Startup’s Multilingual Model Praised by Google CEO Sundar Pichai for Outperforming Global AI in Indian Languages

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:15am on 19 Feb 2026,Thursday Tech Today

India’s homegrown Sarvam AI is a next-generation artificial intelligence model built to understand and process Indian languages and contexts. Developed by a Bengaluru-based startup, the model supports 22 official Indian languages and performs tasks such as image captioning, speech recognition, scene text reading, and document understanding. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised the initiative, highlighting India’s growing AI capabilities. Reports suggest Sarvam AI has outperformed leading global systems in select Indian language benchmarks, marking a major step toward sovereign AI development and improved digital accessibility across India. 

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