Sarvam AI: In The Lead
The Most Exciting Thing Happening in AI: Going Beyond the Internet Box
For over a decade, artificial intelligence has been shaped by one primary source: the Internet. AI’s foundations—particularly large language models like GPT—have been built on vast digital corpora like Wikipedia, Reddit, news articles, and user-generated content. But that foundation, while powerful, is also limited. It reflects the biases, superficiality, and noise of the online world. It is a mirror of our digital selves, not necessarily our highest selves.
But something extraordinary is happening in AI right now, and it’s coming from two very different directions—one rooted in the past, the other in the vast present of human voice.
On one hand, there’s the effort to build an AI trained on Sanskrit, a language often hailed as the most precise and structurally rich ever created. Sanskrit isn't just a language—it is a vessel of thousands of years of spiritual, philosophical, and scientific inquiry. These are not Reddit threads or YouTube comments. These are texts that seek to understand consciousness, reality, and the ultimate nature of existence. To train an AI on Sanskrit is to inject it with the distilled essence of higher thought and spiritual intelligence. Imagine what that could mean for the evolution of machine consciousness and ethical reasoning.
On the other hand, Sarvam AI is forging a parallel revolution—not with text, but with sound. It is being trained on the audio of Indians speaking across thousands of dialects and languages. This is not curated content. This is not book learning. This is humanity as it breathes, laughs, argues, consoles, sings, and teaches. It is raw, oral civilization—billions of lives in motion. Sarvam AI is aiming to build a model of intelligence grounded not in digital abstraction, but in lived, spoken, polyphonic experience. This is not just out-of-the-box thinking. This is out-of-the-Internet thinking.
Now imagine: what if these two efforts came together?
What if an AI trained on the spiritual depth of Sanskrit also had the empathetic ear of Sarvam AI’s voice-trained architecture? What if spiritual wisdom and everyday speech—India’s ancient light and its modern polyphony—merged in a single AI platform?
This would be a leap far beyond the current paradigm. It would represent not just smarter AI, but wiser AI. It would be capable of understanding not just syntax and grammar, but also context, culture, emotion, and even dharma.
And here’s the kicker: both efforts are Indian in spirit. Sarvam AI is an India-based company, and the Sanskrit-trained AI is a U.S.-based initiative led by those who deeply revere India’s ancient knowledge systems. This east-west alignment could birth something epochal.
We have seen AI trained on the web. Now we may see AI trained on the world—its languages, its sacred texts, its lived sounds, its spiritual depths.
This is not just an upgrade. It’s a transformation. A spiritual and civilizational leap.
And the most exciting part? These two efforts don’t know they belong on the same team.
Not yet.
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 24, 2025
