“India's own large language model — a foundation model built to maintain Indian context and culture — is expected to be ready within the next 10 months: 'We believe there are at least six developers who will be able to create foundation models in the next eight to 10 months on the outer limit and four to six months on an aggressive, optimistic estimate,' supported by the India AI Compute Facility's 18,693 procured GPUs.”

No indigenous from-scratch foundational model shipped within the 10-month window; Sarvam was only selected to build India's sovereign LLM in April 2025, and the first public sovereign foundation models (Sarvam 105B, BharatGen, Gnani.ai) launched at the IndiaAI Impact Summit in February 2026, roughly three months past the deadline.