[DigitalToday reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Indian AI company Sarvam has unveiled AI models for Nokia feature phones, cars and smart glasses, TechCrunch reported on Feb. 18.

At the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, Sarvam announced it is adding an AI assistant to Nokia feature phones and is working with Bosch to develop an automotive AI solution.

The AI model Sarvam presented is a lightweight edge AI measured in megabytes. It works offline and can run on existing processors. Sarvam is also working with Qualcomm on chipset optimisation. Sarvam plans to launch AI smart glasses called Sarvam Kaze in May.

Sarvam has focused on the enterprise market, but the announcement reflects a strategy to expand into the consumer AI market as well.

Sarvam also unveiled a new large language model (LLM) and speech-and-vision AI models at the India AI Impact Summit. TechCrunch said the announcement coincides with a push for India to reduce reliance on foreign AI platforms and step up AI development tailored to local languages and use cases.

Sarvam introduced 3 billion- and 105 billion-parameter LLMs, text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion models, and a document-analysis vision model. The 3 billion- and 105 billion-parameter models use a Mixture-of-Experts structure to cut computing costs and support 32,000 and 128,000 tokens, respectively, to suit real-time conversation and complex computation tasks. Sarvam stressed that it developed the models independently from scratch rather than tuning based on existing open-source AI.