Sarvam AI is launching Chanakya, a sovereign AI framework designed for high-security government and critical infrastructure environments in India, with an applied AI service tailored for institutions where reliability and security are mission-critical.

The Chanakya launch marks a strategic push to address large-scale, high-stakes challenges by offering mission-critical AI solutions that operate behind the firewall and inside secure, governance-focused contexts.

Key features include multilingual processing across Indian languages, built-in regulatory compliance, and human-centric automation that supports public sector tasks such as document summarization, policy analysis, and complex decision-making with human oversight.

Co-founder Vivek Raghavan emphasizes a B2B and government-facing strategy, signaling that the next AI growth wave in India will come from behind-the-firewall systems rather than consumer apps, with monetization focused on enterprise and government deployments.

Sarvam is in early talks to raise about $250–$300 million from investors including NVIDIA, HCLTech, and Accel to support expansion into enterprise and government-focused AI solutions.

Sarvam unveiled its own AI models, Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B, with support for 22 Indian languages, at the India AI Impact Summit.

The platform is deeply integrated with Indic languages and aligned with evolving Indian data protection laws to suit the domestic market.

Target customers include regulated enterprises and strategic-sector institutions that cannot rely on public cloud or consumer AI tools, offering a secure, controlled AI infrastructure with dual-use potential.

Chanakya builds on Sarvam AI’s in-house models and expands the product lineup, including Sarvam Vision, Sarvam Dub, and Sarvam Kaze smart glasses, reinforcing end-to-end AI capabilities.

Chanakya prioritizes on-premise deployments, including air-gapped environments, with multi-modal data ingestion and production-grade workflows to ensure reliability in mission-critical scenarios.

The solution emphasizes data staying within secure networks, reducing reliance on foreign providers through air-gapped, on-prem deployments.

The launch is framed as a milestone in India’s AI for Bharat initiative, aiming to automate powerful processes while securely contained within national borders to potentially underpin essential services.