Comparison · Sovereign AI
Who is building India's cyber AI? Not the ones you'd expect.
India's sovereign LLMs are general-purpose. None is a cyber + legal domain model — which is exactly the lane we occupy. Here is an honest map of who is building what.
The landscape
India's AI models, by focus
All India-hosted. Only one is built for cyber and legal.
| Model | What it is | Focus | Hosted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarvam AI | IndiaAI-Mission sovereign foundation-model developer; flagship Indic-language LLM. ~$234M Series B (Jun 2026), ~$1.5B valuation. | General-purpose / Indic language | India |
| BharatGen | Government-backed multimodal Indic LLM consortium via IIT Bombay's TIH Foundation; a 22-language general model. | General-purpose / Indic multimodal | India |
| Krutrim | India's first AI unicorn (Ola); full-stack ambition; reported mid-2026 refocus onto AI-cloud, foundational-model work paused (single source). | General-purpose | India |
| Codesnag × VirtualVakil | Sovereign AI for cyber and legal: offensive-security and Indian-law reasoning, hosted and fine-tuned in India, with experts in the loop. | Cyber + legal (the empty lane) | India |
Figures and status as reported (see sources). Capability benchmarks are not compared here; we make no parity claim with Mythos.
A Mythos alternative for India
The sovereign option available to Indian organisations.
Project Glasswing, explained
Anthropic's restricted programme, and India's position.
How India's Mythos should be measured
The public benchmarks — Cybench, CyberGym, XBOW.
Sovereign AI for India
Why sovereignty, and what we are building.
Questions
Straight answers
Who is building Mythos-like AI in India?
The sovereign LLMs — Sarvam AI, BharatGen and Krutrim — are general-purpose Indic models. The only cyber effort is a reported government request to Sarvam and BharatGen. None is a consumer-facing cyber + legal model.
Is any of them a cyber or legal specialist?
No. They are general-purpose / Indic-language foundation models. The cyber + legal domain is the lane Codesnag × VirtualVakil occupies.
Are these comparable to Mythos?
Not on capability — and we make no parity claim. The comparison here is about focus (general vs cyber + legal), hosting and data residency, not benchmark scores.
Mythos is a product of Anthropic. Codesnag and VirtualVakil are not affiliated with, endorsed by or powered by Anthropic or Mythos, and we make no claim of benchmark parity with it. The name is used here only to describe the national conversation.