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Sarvam AI announced on October 27 that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with India's Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) to establish a unified framework for AI projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force. According to MediaNama, Sarvam will design, develop and deploy AI applications for operations, training and decision support, with the three services and joint agencies sharing the same foundation models, agent infrastructure, and geospatial and perception systems; the work is handled by Chanakya, a firewall division focused on national security, and uses foundation models such as Sarvam 105B. The report also noted that the announcement did not disclose the signing date, signatories, contract value, funding and duration, or a specific project list, nor did it state whether any systems have already been deployed; neither HQ IDS nor the Ministry of Defence independently confirmed it.
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Sarvam AI Signs MoU with India's Integrated Defence Staff to Develop AI Systems for the Three Armed Forces
On October 27, Sarvam AI announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with India's Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) to establish a unified framework for AI projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Sarvam will design, develop and deploy AI applications for operations, training and decision support, with the three services and joint agencies sharing the same foundation models, agent infrastructure, and geospatial and perception systems. The work is handled by Chanakya, a firewall division focused on national security, and uses foundation models such as Sarvam 105B. The announcement did not disclose the signing date, signatories, contract value, funding and duration, or the specific project list, nor did it state whether any systems have already been deployed; neither HQ IDS nor the Ministry of Defence has independently confirmed it.