Lokesh Choudhary (2025) News article / media

UIDAI Partners Sarvam AI To Offer AI Voice, Fraud Detection To Aadhaar

Inc42

Ref: SRC-002-IND-008

https://inc42.com/buzz/uidai-partners-sarvam-ai-to-offer-ai-voice-fraud-detection-to-aadhaar/

Accessed: 3/25/2026

Summary

Tech media reporting on the partnership with additional details on Sarvam AI's background: founded 2023 by Pratyush Kumar and Vivek Raghavan, USD 41 million Series A funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, and Khosla Ventures. Reports Sarvam AI's models including Sarvam 2B (India's first open-source foundational SLM for Indic languages) and Shuka 1.0 (audio language model). Notes concurrent launch of Sarvam Labs in San Francisco for foundational AI research.

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Choudhary, L. (2025) 'UIDAI Partners Sarvam AI To Offer AI Voice, Fraud Detection To Aadhaar', Inc42, 18 March. Available at: https://inc42.com/buzz/uidai-partners-sarvam-ai-to-offer-ai-voice-fraud-detection-to-aadhaar/ (Accessed: 25 March 2026).

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