Today, we’re launching Jivam AI — a desktop application that brings India’s most capable reasoning models to your Mac, Windows, and Linux machine. It’s the AI client we always wanted to use, and couldn’t find.
We’ve been building Jivam for the past six months, and we think the timing couldn’t be better. India now has genuinely frontier AI models — and they deserve a first-class interface.
Why a desktop app?
Most AI products are web apps. That makes sense for reach, but it comes with real costs: slow startup, no local file access, no keyboard-centric workflows, no offline capability. For people who use AI tools for hours every day — developers, researchers, writers — these things matter.
Jivam is built as a native desktop app. It starts in under a second, integrates with your file system, remembers your sessions, and gets out of the way when you need to think.
“The best tool is the one you forget you’re using. We wanted Jivam to feel like an extension of your own thinking — not a product you’re interacting with.”
Why Sarvam-105B?
We evaluated every major model before settling on Sarvam-105B as our default. What convinced us wasn’t just benchmark performance — it was the quality of reasoning on tasks that matter to Indian users: code in Indian contexts, multilingual switching, domain knowledge that’s locally grounded.
Beyond language, Sarvam-105B has strong reasoning capabilities. It can hold long chains of thought, work through multi-step problems, and produce code that actually runs. These aren’t marketing claims — they’re the things we tested obsessively over months.
Two modes, one app
Conversation Mode
For open-ended exploration. Ask questions, get analysis, draft documents, search the web. Jivam maintains context across a full session so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
Code Mode
A focused interface built for developers. See diffs, copy code blocks with one click, attach files and get grounded responses. Sarvam-105B’s reasoning capabilities shine here — it doesn’t just autocomplete, it thinks through your problem.
What’s coming
Cowork is our next major feature — a shared workspace where you can assign Jivam to long-horizon tasks, with memory that persists across sessions. We’re also working on deeper IDE integrations, voice input, and support for the full suite of models available on Ola Krutrim Cloud.
- Cowork mode — long-horizon collaborative tasks
- Persistent memory across conversations
- IDE and editor integrations
- Voice input and dictation
- Full Krutrim Cloud model catalogue
Jivam is free to download and use today. We’d love to hear what you think.