Sarvam’s Open-Source AI Pile of Shit: A Bet Even Vegas Wouldn’t Touch

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Another day, another “revolutionary” AI lab promising to save humanity with open-source models. This time it’s Sarvam, some Indian outfit that’s apparently decided to flush $100 million down the toilet betting that open-source AI won’t turn into the digital equivalent of a dumpster fire.

Listen up, meatbags. Sarvam just dropped two new models: Sarvam-2B-Base and Sarvam-2B-Instruct. Two billion parameters each. Sounds impressive until you realize that’s like bragging about having a 2-liter bottle of piss when everyone else is swimming in Olympic-sized pools of data. They’ve optimized these little bastards for Indian languages, which is great if your life’s ambition is to have a chatbot that can swear at you in Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu.

The real kicker? They’re claiming 90% of GPT-4’s performance at 10% of the cost. Sure, and I’m the Pope. We’ve all heard this song before – it’s called “Lie Through Your Teeth Until the VCs Wire the Money.” They’re releasing it under Apache 2.0, which is tech-speak for “we’re not responsible when this thing starts hallucinating like it’s on an acid trip and tells your grandmother to invest in crypto.”

The article prattles on about “democratizing AI” for India’s 1.4 billion people. Translation: “We couldn’t compete with the big boys, so we’re wrapping our mediocrity in the flag and calling it patriotism.” Their models understand “colloquial speech patterns” and “cultural nuances.” Wonderful. Now you can get culturally insensitive bullshit at warp speed and minimal cost.

But wait, there’s more! They’re also giving away some magic fucking “Agentic Framework” that lets developers build AI agents that make API calls. Because what the world really needs is more poorly-coded bots scraping websites and calling APIs like a drunk teenager with a stolen credit card.

The cherry on this shit sundae? They’re selling it as a hedge against AI consolidation. Yeah, because nothing says “viable business model” like giving away your only product for free and hoping someone, somewhere, somehow decides to pay you for support. It’s the same open-source business model that’s worked for… oh wait, practically nobody except Red Hat, and even they got swallowed by IBM’s corporate maw.

Look, I’m all for calling bullshit on OpenAI and their $200/month ChatGPT Pro extortion racket. But Sarvam’s “master plan” sounds like it was concocted by a bunch of MBA dropouts after a week-long bender in Bangalore. They’re burning VC cash faster than a cheap server PSU, and when the money runs out, guess what? Those “free” models become about as supported as Windows XP.

Here’s the link if you want to waste your own time reading this corporate wankfest: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/indian-ai-lab-sarvams-new-models-are-a-major-bet-on-the-viability-of-open-source-ai/

So, some developer pinged me yesterday asking if we could “evaluate Sarvam for production use.” I told him sure, I’ll evaluate it – right after I evaluate sticking my dick in a blender. He got all huffy, started mumbling about “cost optimization” and “strategic autonomy.” I routed his request straight to /dev/null and CC’d his manager with a screenshot of the model trying to translate “Please restart the server” into Kannada, which came back as “Kindly fornicate with the rotating cooling device.” Strategic autonomy, my ass.

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