A big change is coming in the world of technology in India. Sarvam AI, a new startup from Bangalore, has surprised everyone with its work. This AI model made in India has left behind even big foreign companies like ChatGPT and Google Gemini in the field of reading text from photo (OCR), understanding documents in Indian languages and reproducing human voice.
What is Sarvam AI?
Sarvam AI is India’s own AI company, which was started in August 2023 by Dr. Vivek Raghavan and Dr. Pratyush Kumar. The main reason for creating it was that the world’s big AI models (like ChatGPT) could not properly understand Indian languages, the accents of different dialects and government or indigenous papers. Sarvam AI is especially working to overcome these problems.
Expert in reading and understanding papers and files
The company’s Sarvam Vision model is very expert in reading and understanding papers and files. Its biggest feature is that it reads the data written in scanned documents, photos, charts and tables accurately. When this model was compared with big foreign AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, it gave much better results, leaving them all behind. Its real strength lies in easily understanding papers in Indian languages, where global AI models often fail.
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Specially designed for Indian documents
Sarvam Vision is specially designed for reading government forms, scanned papers and blurry or low quality photos in India. This model can easily understand handwritten handwriting and even crooked tables. This quality will be very useful in making banking, education and government works digital.
Bulbul V3 and AI Voice Generation
Bulbul V3 is another great AI tool whose main function is to convert written words into voice. Its biggest feature is that it has 35 different types of voices for 22 Indian languages. It has been specially designed according to our regional dialects and accents, due to which its voice does not sound robotic but sounds exactly like a real human being. Even if the written text is old or contains some mistakes, it can still produce excellent and clear audio.
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Platform kept open-source to help developers
Sarvam AI is positioning itself as a trusted and independent AI platform in India. Its entire focus is on using Indian data, using Indian servers and following the rules of the country. This step will reduce our dependence on foreign AI companies and will help in keeping our data safe in India itself. Not only this, Sarvam AI has kept its technology open (open-source) for everyone. This will help Indian software developers to create apps that understand our own language, culture and conversation style.
