Sarvam AI partners Microsoft to bring voice AI to Azure

New Delhi: Indian generative AI startup Sarvam AI on Thursday announced its collaboration with Microsoft to make its Indic voice Large Language Model (LLM) available on Azure. The collaboration will allow Sarvam AI to use Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud and AI infrastructure - including Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Machine Learning - to train, host, and scale its LLMs quickly and efficiently.

"This partnership embodies our vision of ‘Sarvam’ - meaning ‘all’ - by enhancing AI’s reach across various Indian languages and sectors," Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder of Sarvam AI, said in a statement. Sarvam AI’s Indic voice LLM, which aims to provide a natural voice-based interface to LLMs, will initially be available in Hindi. The startup is working to expand coverage to more Indian languages while ensuring support for colloquial language use. Sarvam AI and Microsoft are also working together to improve and scale up the support for Indian languages in Microsoft's Generative AI frontier language models, according to the company.