Sarvam Announces Sovereign AI Partnerships with Indian States
AI is moving from isolated capability to foundational infrastructure. Its value compounds when it is shared, reused, and embedded across systems.
For impact at population scale, intelligence has to function as a backbone. One that spans services, workflows, and use cases. One that endures and improves over time.
Reaching this point requires a different posture. Compute that operates at national scale. Models designed for Indian languages and contexts. And institutions capable of stewarding adoption across a billion users.
This is the ambition Sarvam is advancing, working alongside Indian states. To help shape an AI foundation that is durable, interoperable, and capable of powering public systems at national scale.
Sarvam is proud to announce a landmark in India’s sovereign AI journey through strategic partnerships with the Governments of Odisha and Tamil Nadu. The aim of these partnerships is to drive transformation by building at-scale compute, sovereign models, and the institutional capacity to drive AI adoption. Embedding intelligence into the very fabric of governance so that citizens experience services in languages and formats they are already comfortable with, across every district and taluka, every day.
Odisha
Odisha is standing at the threshold of a new industrial era. Historically, it has been a state of physical strength - rich in minerals, surplus in energy, and strong in industrial operations. It is now converting that strategic advantage into digital intelligence. On February 6th, 2026, Odisha signed an MOU with Sarvam to build a sovereign AI capacity hub.
We are planning to develop a 50MW AI-optimized facility. This infrastructure is designed with a dual purpose. First, it will act as the state’s own AI public utility and apply to the states core strengths: mining, heavy industrials, and skilling. Vision AI will ensure world-class safety and compliance at industrial sites, while Odia-to-English voice tools will scale job readiness for youth.
Secondly, Odisha is positioning itself as India’s compute backbone. India’s AI growth will be compute-constrained unless sovereign capacity is built at scale. Therefore, our hub will not only serve Odisha but will anchor a nation-wide compute grid. We will offer reliable, production-grade AI capacity to other states and national platforms.
Odisha transition from a "mine-driven economy" to a "mind-driven economy”, a technology enabled economy, is aligned with the broader vision of “Viksit Bharat 2047"
Smt. Anu Garg, Chief Secretary, Odisha
Tamil Nadu
In Tamil Nadu, this vision is taking shape through Digital Sangam - India’s first Sovereign AI Research Park, being built with Sarvam and IIT Madras. This Park is envisioned as a dedicated physical ecosystem where advanced compute infrastructure, frontier research, and startup incubation co-locate to attract and grow the world’s best AI talent.
“Digital Sangam” is a landmark public-private partnership with Sarvam AI and IIT Madras. Sarvam brings deep experience in building sovereign, population-scale AI systems, while IIT Madras anchors world-class research and talent.
The deployment of population-scale, voice-enables AI applications will enable will enable citizens, particularly in rural tribal areas, to access information on entitlement, benefit and grievance redressal through simple conversational interfaces
- Dr. TRB Rajaa, Minister for Industries, Tamil Nadu
At its core will be a 20MW AI-optimized data center. This sovereign infrastructure will ensure sensitive data remains within our boundaries and that our AI systems reflect the deep pride in Tamil language and culture.
The impact will touch every citizen. With AI, Vivasāya Nanban assistant will provide 24×7 digital advisory to 79 lakh farm households. A unified AI-powered citizen helpline will simplify access to welfare and public services. By embedding intelligence across service delivery, AI will make the State more responsive, inclusive, and intelligent.
It’s Time to Build
India stands at a historic crossroads where the "data dividend" of our population meets the necessity of digital autonomy. The economic implications are substantial. Choices made now about AI infrastructure will shape whether intelligence compounds within the country or accrues elsewhere. Building sovereign AI capacity is central to a digitally self-reliant economy in the decades ahead.
This requires deliberate architecture. Sovereign compute. Models built for Indian languages and contexts. And a Digital Public Infrastructure layer that allows intelligence to be shared, reused, and adopted across systems. Together, these layers ensure that learning, value, and capability remain within national boundaries.
Early efforts are already underway. Initiatives such as Odisha’s capacity hub and Tamil Nadu’s Digital Sangam represent the first components of a national compute grid designed to support India’s workforce at scale.
Sarvam is contributing to this effort by building India’s full-stack sovereign AI stack end to end. From models grounded in Indian data to applications deployed across population-scale use cases. The goal is simple. To ensure that the future of technology reflects how India thinks, speaks, and solves its most complex problems.
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