Indian startup Sarvam AI debuted 'Sarvam-M', a 24B open-weights LLM built on top of Mistral Small. It received fewer than 720 downloads within 3 days. Menlo Ventures' Deedy Das criticised Sarvam-M, saying, it performs "marginally better in Indic languages," adding that it "doesn't solve hard problems". Meanwhile, Zoho's Sridhar Vembu defended Sarvam, saying, "No product was ever an instant hit".