Pratyush Kumar

Building @SarvamAI

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

The enterprise adoption of India's AI stack just got a massive leg up. Welcome onboard, Sashi.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We’re delighted to announce that Sashikumar Sreedharan is joining Sarvam as President and Chief Business Officer. He’ll also join our board.

Sashi joins us as our work with customers grows in scale and scope. He’ll lead our business as we bring Sarvam’s full-stack AI platform to more enterprises and governments and deepen our work with developers and partners.

We're excited for what we’ll build together. Welcome to the team, Sashi!

Read the announcement: https://t.co/QvEBREvfak

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Raghunath ji, thank you for bringing this to our attention. It is at the heart of what we are attempting at @SarvamAI .

We agree that you shouldn't have to count characters to be empowered by AI. We have credited your account with a lifetime access to our models. 🙏

Anyone else using Sarvam for accessibility, please write to us at [email protected]. Our team will address you directly while we work towards launching a formal program asap.

[Raghunath AS 🇮🇳 @asraghunath]

Hello @SarvamAI,
I am 70, an oral cancer survivor since 2015. Cancer took away my God-given gift of speech. Today, my wife is my voice before doctors, banks and the outside world.
I have spent years communicating through written notes, often unread or unanswered. At cancer hospitals, I see countless patients struggling to express their suffering. Our pain is ours, but our voice has become someone else’s.
India has an estimated 1.99 million people with speech disabilities. For us, Text-to-Speech AI is not a convenience. It is our lost voice restored.
A doctor may not read my 100-word note, but could listen to it in under a minute.
Yet your per-character pricing makes regular use expensive.
Could @SarvamAI introduce an affordable, unlimited-use Divyangjan monthly subscription like other AI models like #ChatGPT #GeminiAI?
We are not asking for charity. We are asking for the dignity of speaking for ourselves.
Waiting for your reply so that I can subscribe this tool right away.
@narendramodi @AshwiniVaishnaw

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Open-sourcing our System 1 model Sarvam Prism, trained on Sarvam 105B. It pushes the pareto of accuracy v speed v calibration. Uses block-bidirectional attention, isolates options with a mask and shared positions, and a split attention kernel for fast inferencing.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

Today we’re releasing Sarvam Prism, a System One model built on Sarvam 105B for fast, accurate decisions across enterprise workflows.

It scores 71.8 with a median response time of 44 milliseconds, the highest average score among decision models that respond in under 100 milliseconds.

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Proud to be building Sarvam with one of the very few deep tech architects of modern India - @vivekrag

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We’re proud to share that @vivekrag has been named in TIME100 AI 2026, @TIME magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential leaders in AI.

This recognition reflects his work over the decades building the rails that make technology more useful and accessible to people.

https://t.co/4rzLImsgot

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Congrats @tarunsmehta and team @atherenergy on launch of Konarc. Fantastic product and of course reminds me of my state’s Sun Temple!

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We partnered with @atherenergy to take the launch of their new electric scooter, Ather Konarc, to a wider audience by powering the live Hindi dub of the event.

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

A great partner building a great product. @gvkjunior @equaldotin

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We partnered with Equal to power the speech recognition behind its AI Personal Call Assistant.

Equal AI is building a personal assistant that answers incoming calls on behalf of users. It understands who is calling and why, then shares a summary and recording after each call, giving users the context they need without having to pick up.

The assistant uses Saaras, our Speech to Text model, to understand Indian languages, regional accents and the way people naturally move between languages in conversation. Saaras can also distinguish between speakers and process large volumes of audio.

Equal AI now processes around 34 million audio minutes on Sarvam every month. Across that volume, Saaras delivers reliable speech recognition even as languages, accents and speakers change from one call to the next.

Read the full case study: https://t.co/o41ft3ky44

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Proud to be of service to build AI for and with Indian Navy. 🇮🇳

[HQ Integrated Def Staff @HQ_IDS_India]

As part of efforts towards infusion of Artificial Intelligence in training, a first of its kind customised GPT named #DRONA (DSSC Resource Optimising Neural Al) ver 1.0 was indigenously developed by Defence Service Staff College Wellington and was launched on #DSSC WAN on 16 Jun 2025.

Towards keeping pace with advancements in the domain of Generative Al and to incorporate indigenous technological stacks, a multi modal DRONA 2.0 GPT was developed integrating the indigenous SARVAM 105b LLM along with open source LLMs. #DRONA 2.0 was launched today by Lt Gen Manish Erry, Commandant #DSSC in the presence of Dr Vivek Raghavan, Co-Founder, Sarvam Al. Along with the launch, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between #DSSC and SARVAM Al for collaboration and further development of DRONA GPT & various Al based applications.

#DRONA 2.0 is hosted on state of the art GPU server for use in DSSC & has multimodal features like reasoning, document inferencing, image recognition/ generation, text to speech/ speech to text, translation/ transliteration, podcast/ ppt generation and tools for data analytics. Being the first of its kind multi modal GPT in armed forces, the application was subjected to extensive audit and was certified by #HQIDS/ Defence Cyber Agency (DCyA).

DRONA 2.0 is pre-trained on a large repository of the academic content residing at DSSC providing major fillip to faculty, students of DSSC, aiding them towards access of information and progress advanced studies/research in the field of Defence and Strategic Studies.

#artificialintellingence
#DRONA2.0
#professionalmilitaryeducation

@DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@SpokespersonMoD
@MIB_India

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

This is India's decade to build. We at @SarvamAI are bringing the full stack of AI to every builder with a dream. Get in touch to have your campus on our tour.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

Introducing Sarvam Campus.

There is extraordinary ambition on India’s campuses. A generation is coming of age believing it can build almost anything.

This Independence Day, we’re taking Sarvam to the next builders of India.

Sarvam Campus will travel to universities across India for a day of talks, technical sessions, workshops and live hackathons with our founders, researchers and engineers.

We’ll bring a full Sarvam crew to every campus, give students access to our products, spend the day building together, and see where their ideas take this effort.

Want your university to be one of our next stops? Write to us at [email protected]

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Here we go…

Incoming: new models and products from @SarvamAI

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

Sarvam Epoch | Chapter 1

Join us for the first edition of Sarvam Epoch, our flagship AI conference, in Bengaluru.

Across the two days, we will share new model updates, launch new products, present our latest research, and host hands-on technical workshops.

Builder Edition, 30 July | Enterprise Edition, 31 July

Register here: https://t.co/WD4z1oovEC

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Big day for all of us at Sarvam.

I want to start by thanking my team for shouldering this mission with immense belief, urgency, and care.

Reflecting on the last few years of the founding journey, my conviction has only deepened:
- AI will be far more consequential than most of us realize even today
- The value loops of this new world cannot be owned by a couple of companies
- Country of India scale cannot rent intelligence. We have to build it ourselves

We are going to push hard across every layer of the company, but the thing that excites me most right now is our shot at building frontier-class AI systems from India. We are assembling the team, the compute, and the deployment engine to make this happen.

I also want to thank our new investors. HCLTech’s partnership opens joint opportunities to bring our research and platform to many of HCLTech’s clients - this is also a unique template to bring together India’s strengths. BVP brings to the team the rare combination of being at the forefront of India's biggest tech shifts for the past two decades while globally having partnered with category defining enterprise AI companies.

Onwards

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We're thrilled to announce that we have raised $234M in the first close of our $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation.

@HCLTech and @BessemerVP have joined us in this round, alongside continued support from @khoslaventures and @peakxvpartners

For countries and companies, sovereign control on the AI stack is no longer an optionality. Sarvam will be the partner of choice for this aspiration. The capital allows us to accelerate our momentum towards this full stack of models, compute, and deployments.

A huge thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and the Sarvam team for your trust and belief in what we are building. We’re just getting started.

Read more: https://t.co/VmLtpnj8gx

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Bottomline, irrespective of hit jobs by foreign media or naysayers of various shades, India has the talent, the scale of the economy, the ambition amongst people for a better life, and a government that understands the imperative for technology innovation.

The Fable ban is a good instigation for more people to engage in recognising the need for sovereignty. But while many opine, Sarvam is at work making the Fable of India's first consequential AI company a reality.

We are hiring!

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Ok, so here is my take on the Fable ban, sovereign AI, Sarvam, etc.

The event is interesting as it has implications from many perspectives.

For AI users, it is clear that you should not confuse access with ownership, or adoption itself as advantage. And if the most significant tech differentiator you are leveraging has external control loops, then you have to accept you are vulnerable.

For AI talent, it is now a precedent that you would be *seen* aligning to national interests more than company interests. And even if its just a whim for now, this trend will be hard to reverse as the world gets more automated…

For AI labs, their offerings will be stratified - general purpose AI would be available as utility, but frontier AI would be gated. This is a fantastic business model for labs - *democratized* AI sucks in all the data liquidity of the world which is locked in higher margin frontier offerings.

I think for the world to be a better place, all three of the above are bad vectors. We need to have more countries and companies owning their own destinies. And in the post AI world, that means being able to use and improve AI systems within their own perimeters - what one may call Sovereign AI.

At Sarvam, Sovereign AI in India was the founding thesis a couple of years back, and continues to remain the core operating principle. From our vantage point, it is super clear that India will build, leverage, and create massive business value and societal impact with sovereign AI. The following is precisely how we at Sarvam are contributing to make that happen.

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Compute:
We were the first team in India to train at scale. We trained the sovereign models at the scale of ~3400 H100s. We are now putting serious capital behind the next step. India's first Blackwell cluster is now online and used by us, and we are building momentum towards operating 10s of megawatts in compute on Indian soil by 2027.

Models:
With Sarvam 105B, India's first sovereign model built from scratch, we showed that highly capable models can be trained here, independently. More importantly, the capability is now compounding across data, training, evaluation, systems, alignment, and deployment intuition. And we are scaling up to trillion-parameter class models, with larger runs built for coding, agents, and security. A coding model is coming soon...

Inference:
We already host our own models, with third party usage tripling in the last three months. We are soon taking live a production-grade token factory with the price, throughput, latency, reliability, and governance that banks, governments, enterprises, startups, and developers need for real systems.

Products:
Our products are now reaching India scale. Voice was our first wedge. It powers millions of interactions per day, doubling in the last three months, while we continue to optimise costs. Like voice, another modality at scale in India is documents, and we are hitting exponential growth of our new document intelligence product. Our fully managed agents product is live with enterprises and is being launched for all next month.

Deployment:
Most of the value in AI is unlocked in the last mile. We learned that by doing it across engagements in enterprises, government, and strategic sectors. Now we are turning that learning into a platform that allows every organisation to hill climb on its own use cases - whether it is building an agent, customising the harness, creating the data/tool backbone, or finetuning the model on custom data.

Talent:
Serious researchers are joining us across pretraining and RL, including people who have done meaningful work at the frontier. We are also starting our San Francisco office as the conduit for frontier AI ambition for India first, then the world.

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Speaking this Thursday evening in SFO on all things model research and future plans @SarvamAI. Will also give a peak into the scale and impact of our deployed products. Bottomline: It's a generational opportunity to build a consequential Indian deep tech firm...

RSVP to join - https://t.co/kvZD24Eguz

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Speaking tomorrow at Stanford about the opportunity to build deep tech in India. If you want to train models, build products, create population scale impact, or are just curious what we are up to then RSVP and show up - https://t.co/TLlNBp8ojJ

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

A must attend webinar on what to build with our SoTA speech recognition model and the recent upgrades on diarisation and accuracy.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

We're hosting a webinar on Saaras V3, our speech-to-text model for teams building Voice AI for India.

Date: Thursday, May 21
Time: 5:00 PM IST

In this session, we'll break down what it takes to ship Voice AI that works reliably across noisy environments, regional accents, mixed-language speech, and multiple speakers.

Register here: https://t.co/D0ipgm0ZAq

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Thank you @karandi65 for the many initiatives at DST including overseeing the first set of foundation model building efforts and the inception of the path breaking RDI program. Look forward to working with you at @NITIAayog as we contribute to the Sovereign AI charter at @SarvamAI.

[Abhay Karandikar @karandi65]

I have completed my term as Secretary @IndiaDST and will be taking charge as Member @NITIAayog on Monday.

It was a very satisfying and highly enriching experience for me. Having spent my entire professional career in academics, I had my own reservations initially when I joined as Secretary to the Government of India. But the immense cooperation from all my colleagues & other stakeholders in the system made my nearly three-year tenure a great and fulfilling one.

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

Honoured to be recognised as a Winner at the AIBoomi Awards in the Frontier AI category.

We would like to thank @AIBoomi, the jury, and everyone who has believed in what we're building at Sarvam.

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Thanks to Shashank and @Razorpay team for the partnership. Teams put this together overnight!

Massive opportunity in reimagining what the compute stack for a billion Indians looks like…

[Shashank Kumar @shashank_kr]

Every decade, the interface to commerce changes.

Web → Apps → ?

The next shift might be simpler than we think: Conversation.

@Razorpay's partnership with @SarvamAI is a step in that direction.