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Sarvam CEO warns against reliance on global tech stacks
The Hindu BusinessLine··2d ago
Sarvam AI co-founder Pratyush Kumar said India risks becoming a digital colony if services keep running on technology controlled by a few global firms. At Zoho's Zoholics conference on Thursday, he urged firms to build their own full stacks. He said Sarvam builds models, applications and inference in-house. Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu also argued for deeper domestic capability.
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What It Means For You
- Large Indian companies that depend on a few foreign platforms face pricing and access risk if vendors change terms.
- Local model, application and inference stacks can keep more value onshore.
- Conference remarks signal how AI startups pitch alternatives to global cloud AI defaults.
What's Happening
- Kumar said building the full pipeline from user byte to GPU and back gives deeper technical grounding.
- He said Sarvam had to build inference itself because strong Indian players were scarce.
- Vembu said India should develop capabilities across different technology domains.
Why Sarvam built full stack
- Sarvam positions itself as an Indian deep-tech AI company building models and applications.
- The remarks came at Zoho's annual Zoholics event.
- Kumar framed AI as a chance for India to recover ground lost to thin application layers.
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