Indian AI startup Sarvam AI launches Sarvam-M, a language model built on Mistral, offering improvements on Indian language benchmarks.Mistral Small competes with larger models like Llama and Qwen, showing strong performance but faster speed.Mistral releases models like Mistral Medium 3, Devstral, Mistral Document AI, and Mistral Saba for South Asian languages.Mistral Saba excels in Indic languages, particularly South Indian languages such as Tamil.Developers praise Mistral for its speed, quick response time, and efficiency in constrained environments.Indian developers prefer Mistral for tasks involving Indic language understanding and generation, comparing it with Llama and Qwen.Some developers switch to Llama and Qwen models for research purposes, citing broader coverage of needs.Alibaba's Qwen3 models gain popularity, surpassing competitors like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's models on benchmarks.Fractal launches Fathom-R1-14B model in India, offering strong mathematical reasoning performance at a lower cost.India's AI landscape is evolving towards smarter and faster solutions tailored to address unique challenges.