Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled Artham at its flagship AWS re:Invent 2025 conference currently underway in Las Vegas, showcasing India's first Small Language Model (SLM) trained exclusively on Indian financial and capital markets data. Built by Raise Financial Services, the parent company of trading platform Dhan, this announcement marks a significant milestone for the Indian fintech ecosystem with rare recognition on the global re:Invent keynote stage.

Global Recognition at AWS re:Invent 2025

The announcement was made in a keynote address by Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of AWS Agentic AI, with Raise being showcased as a standout example of how forward-thinking customers are building domain-specific AI products on AWS. This recognition represents a rare milestone for an Indian startup to feature on the re:Invent keynote stage on the global platform. Additionally, AWS CEO Matt Garman in his keynote address introduced DevOps Agent, recognizing Dhan as an early customer and adopter of this platform globally.

AI Model Development and Architecture

Positioned as "The Financial Brain, Built for India," Artham is a 7 billion parameter Small Language Model specifically designed to understand the structure, vocabulary, and regulations of India's capital markets. The development has been a nine-month intensive project led by Raise AI, utilizing a carefully curated data blend from the Indian financial ecosystem with 70.00 percent public data and 30.00 percent proprietary information.

Technical Capabilities and Integration

Built entirely in India and hosted on cloud infrastructure within the country, Artham has been engineered to build causal relationships between events spanning Indian companies, macro developments, and their impact on the financial landscape. The model is tuned on Indian market data, regulatory content, company disclosures, and financial knowledge focused on India's listed universe rather than generic global internet text.

Alok Pandey, Co-founder and CTO of Raise Financial Services, emphasized the focus on developing a compact yet deeply tuned model operating under strict data sovereignty controls. Artham supports native tool-calling capabilities, enabling secure access to internal services including real-time market data and analytics.

Production Implementation and Compliance

Artham is already live in production across the Raise ecosystem, powering experiences across fuzz, ScanX, and Dhan platforms. A share of real-time financial news on ScanX and Dhan is generated using Artham, while some conversations on fuzz are powered by the model to help users uncover insights on Indian markets faster with answers grounded in facts and backed by verifiable sources.

According to Pravin Jadhav, Founder and CEO of Raise Financial Services, the model strengthens financial products by providing contextual and source-backed insights while maintaining compliance responsibilities. Every experience powered by Artham includes clear guardrails, offering information and educational insights rather than investment advice or recommendations.

Strategic Vision and Future Roadmap

Artham forms a foundational capability for Raise AI's future roadmap, enabling new India-first tools across research, education, and analytics for market participants and finance professionals. The company plans to increase the share of proprietary data over time as Raise deepens Artham's coverage across India's listed universe, positioning itself as a leader in domestic financial AI solutions.