Sarvam AI Enters Hardware Market with 'Kaze' Smartglass
Indian language model startup Sarvam AI has launched its first hardware product, an AI-powered smartglass named 'Kaze'. The company stated the wearable was designed and manufactured in India. This move marks Sarvam AI's entry into the wearables market, signaling an intersection of domestic AI software with hardware development.
- Sarvam AI was founded in July 2023 by Dr. Vivek Raghavan, who has experience building India's digital public infrastructure like Aadhaar, and Dr. Pratyush Kumar, who has a background in leading open-source AI efforts for Indian languages at AI4Bharat. - The company raised a significant $41 million Series A funding round in December 2023, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures. - 'Kaze' smartglasses are powered by Sarvam's own foundational AI models, which are designed specifically for Indian languages and contexts, including voice-first interfaces. A platform will be available for developers to create custom applications for the wearable. - The Government of India, under its IndiaAI Mission, selected Sarvam AI to build the country's first sovereign large language model, granting the startup access to 4,000 GPUs to train its models. - The company is developing three variants of its model: Sarvam-Large for advanced reasoning, Sarvam-Small for real-time interactive uses, and Sarvam-Edge for on-device tasks. - The 'Kaze' smartglass supports voice-based interaction and real-time translation in over 10 Indian languages and is scheduled for a market launch in May 2026. - Signaling strong governmental support for the indigenous hardware, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first person to publicly try the 'Kaze' smartglasses at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
