India's Sarvam AI raises $234 million funding at $1.5 billion valuation; looks to challenge China, US

Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn with $234M funding round

Sarvam AI hit unicorn with $234M (HCLTech $150M), shipping native Indic LLMs trained from scratch instead of fine-tuned Western models. For CTO planning, this validates sovereign AI as production infrastructure, reshaping non-English markets away from Western LLM vendor lock-in.