India's Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses | TechCrunch

"The company, backed by the likes of Lightspeed, PeakXV, and Khosla Ventures, said at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi that it is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline. The company is teaming up with HMD to bring a conversational AI assistant to Nokia and HMD phones."

""Through edge AI, we want to bring intelligence to every phone, laptop, car, and even a new generation of devices," Tushar Goswamy, head of Edge AI at Sarvam, said during a presentation. He said that the company has worked with Qualcomm to tune its models for the latter's chipsets. Sarvam didn't provide details on which devices the models will be deployed to."

Sarvam plans to deploy newly released AI models on Nokia feature phones, cars, and its own smart glasses. The models are edge-based, occupying only megabytes, capable of running on most phones with existing processors and able to work offline. Sarvam is partnering with HMD to add a conversational AI assistant to Nokia and HMD phones, with a demo showing a dedicated AI button enabling local-language guidance on government schemes and markets. Collaborations include Qualcomm for chipset tuning and Bosch for in-car assistants. The India-made Sarvam Kaze smart glasses will be available in May. The company is shifting focus from enterprise voice models toward consumer use cases.

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