Homegrown artificial intelligence startup Sarvam will raise $75 million from chipmaker Nvidia, US venture capital firm Glade Brook, private equity investor Gaja Capital, IndiGo Ventures, and several individual investors, according to filings with the Registrar of Companies. The investment is part of a larger $300-310 million funding round, of which Sarvam announced a first close of $234 million. The company is building India-first large language models for local use cases and unveiled its first homegrown foundational models supporting 22 Indian languages. The startup aims to compete with global frontier AI models.