A few months ago, when we asked Sarvam AI chief Vivek Raghavan if it was too soon to call the company the OpenAI of India, he humbly brushed off the comparison. However, with the recent groundbreaking announcements and demos at India’s biggest AI conference, Cypher 2024, it’s clear that the company has truly arrived.
OpenAI recently launched its Advanced Voice Mode on ChatGPT, and since then, people have been experimenting with it. Deedy Das from Menlo Ventures used it for the dramatic reenactment of a scene in Hindi from the Bollywood movie Dangal.
Another user posted a video on X where ChatGPT was singing a duet with him. The possibilities with the voice feature of ChatGPT are endless.
While OpenAI’s advanced voice features are impressive, India’s very own Sarvam AI is on a similar track, but with an Indian twist. It’s developing voice-based models for the country that understands and speaks local languages and dialects as the locals.
“India is a country that …