IBM and Sarvam Collaborate to Advance Full Stack Sovereignty for AI, Sovereignty for Government and Regulated Enterprises Across India

• IBM Sovereign Core and Sarvam's India stack to help organizations operationalize sovereign AI aligned with India's governance and sovereignty requirement

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sarvam, India's full-stack sovereign AI company, today announced a collaboration to advance the development and adoption of sovereign AI technologies in India. Through the collaboration, IBM and Sarvam will work together to demonstrate and pilot technologies and solutions targeting industry use cases relevant for central and state governments, public sector organisations, and regulated enterprises across India. 

This initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of trusted, governed, and sovereign AI capabilities across industry and public sector ecosystems through innovation pilots, solution accelerators, technical advisory, and knowledge-sharing initiatives. It brings together IBM Sovereign Core, IBM's AI-ready sovereign-by-design software that enables full control over data, operations and governance, with Sarvam's Sovereign AI stack, which includes reasoning models and India-first language and voice AI trained from scratch in India. The combined offering is purpose-built for the public sector and regulated enterprises aligned with the country’s regulatory, security, and operational requirements.

Together, IBM and Sarvam will power use cases like citizen services, grievance redressal, document processing, and administrative workflows on full stack sovereign AI. This ensures accelerated delivery of secure, multilingual, and voice-enabled Government-to-citizen services at scale.

The IBM GovTech AI Innovation Center in Lucknow will serve as a joint incubation and demonstration hub, where government departments, public sector organisations, enterprises and industry stakeholders can work through the technical, operational, and governance requirements of moving AI from pilots into production and explore practical applications of sovereign AI.

Sriram Raghavan, General Manager, IBM Software, India and Software Innovation Lab said, "Sovereign AI is not simply about where AI runs. It is about giving organizations control over how AI is governed, deployed, and operated. IBM Sovereign Core provides an open, enterprise-grade platform and middleware foundation designed to help governments and regulated enterprises scale AI within environments they trust while addressing governance, security, and compliance requirements. By combining these capabilities with Sarvam's India-first AI technologies, we aim to help organizations operationalize sovereign AI and accelerate the journey from experimentation to production-scale outcomes."

“Sovereign AI has to run inside the systems governments and enterprises already depend on, and at the scale at which those systems operate,” said Pratyush Kumar, Co-Founder of Sarvam. "IBM's Sovereign Core gives governments an AI-ready technology foundation they control. Our stack puts models, voice, and language technologies on top of it, so a citizen can access a benefit or resolve a grievance in their own language, on a phone call."

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HCLTech Announces AI Data Center in Bhubaneswar in Partnership with Sarvam and Govt of Odisha

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• The investment will accelerate India’s sovereign AI and data ecosystem

Further to the announcement dated July 13, 2026, relating to its proposed entry into the full-stack AI market, HCLTech, a global technology company, today said that it plans to set-up its first AI Data Center in the upcoming Odisha Sovereign AI Park.

The AI Data Center will be established in partnership with Sarvam and the Government of Odisha. The planned capital outlay for the project will be Rs 14,257 crores, including financial assistance from the Government of Odisha.

This investment will boost India’s sovereign AI play and local developer ecosystem by leveraging HCLTech’s full-stack AI capabilities and Sarvam’s foundation models to offer sector-specific AI applications to private and public sector enterprises and address the government’s sovereignty needs. It will also contribute to delivery of multi-lingual AI based services to the last mile, in line with Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi’s clarion call of AI for the benefit of everyone.

A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed between HCLTech, Government of Odisha and Sarvam in the presence of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha, Sh. Mohan Charan Majhi; Dr Mukesh Mahaling, Hon’ble Minister of Electronics and IT, Government of Odisha; Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCLTech; C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD, HCLTech and Pratyush Kumar, Co-Founder of Sarvam.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCLTech commented, “HCLTech has been a flagbearer of India’s technology industry. In line with the Digital India and Atmanirbhar Bharat vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi, we strive to be an enabler of India's sovereign AI ecosystem with differentiated offerings across the value chain through focused investments and partnerships. We are pleased to start this endeavor in partnership with Odisha government and Sarvam.”

“This is an important milestone in our full-stack AI play and will enable us to serve the large demand for sovereign AI solutions and unlock the scale of our strategic partnership with Sarvam. Odisha offers a progressive policy environment backed by excellent infrastructure and we look forward to working with them in collaboration with Sarvam, added C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director, HCLTech.

According to Pratyush Kumar, Co-Founder, Sarvam, “The Odisha Sovereign AI Park will connect high-performance compute with Indian models and real-world applications. Together with HCLTech, we are excited to bring Sarvam’s full-stack AI capabilities to enterprises and public systems at scale.”

India is among the fastest growing technology markets globally and a growth market for HCLTech. The country’s data center ecosystem is on a rapid growth trajectory, driven by strong demand from a vibrant digital economy, data localization and critical infrastructure needs to support GPU deployments for AI training and inference workloads.