What They Build
Soket AI Labs develops foundational models for Indian languages, scripts, and domains, including Project EKA and enterprise deployment tooling through TensorStudio.
Why They Matter
Foundational model capability is a sovereignty question, not only a product one. Soket matters because it is one of the startups selected to build indigenous LLMs under the IndiaAI Mission, with an open model roadmap focused on Indian languages. The constraint is compute access and proving model quality against much larger global labs.
Founders
Abhishek Upperwal
Recent Milestones
- Selected in MeitY IndiaAI Mission Phase 1 to develop an indigenous foundational LLM
- Bhasha dataset series launched in April 2024 across translated Indian-language Wikipedia corpora
- Pragna-1B model released as a Project EKA milestone
- Project EKA roadmap disclosed toward 7B, 13B, and 120B parameter checkpoints with IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Roorkee
- $2.2M funding round closed in early 2026 to accelerate model research and development