Sarvam AI

Sarvam AI is a Bengaluru-based startup building sovereign, Indian-language large language models and speech APIs. Selected under the IndiaAI Mission to build a national foundational LLM, it offers models (Sarvam-M, Sarvam-30B, Sarvam-105B) plus ASR, TTS and translation APIs aimed at developers and enterprises serving India's many languages.

Sarvam AI was founded in August 2023 in Bengaluru by Dr. Vivek Raghavan (a former architect of the Aadhaar programme) and Dr. Pratyush Kumar (previously at Microsoft Research and AI4Bharat). Its stated mission is a full Indian-language AI stack: foundational text models, voice-first interfaces and developer APIs designed for the country's many languages and lower-cost hardware. In April 2025 it was reportedly selected first from 67 applicants under the IndiaAI Mission to build India's sovereign LLM, with government support that reportedly included a subsidy toward acquiring thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The product line spans several models. Sarvam-M is a reported 24B-parameter instruction-tuned model (a derivative of Mistral-Small) released in May 2025 and post-trained on English plus several Indic languages; Sarvam-30B is an open-weights model reported to have launched in early 2026; and Sarvam-105B is a larger flagship. On top of the models, Sarvam offers speech-to-text (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), translation and chat APIs through its developer platform, positioned for enterprises and builders who need Indian-language support. Sarvam has raised institutional funding, including a reported $41M Series A in late 2023 (Lightspeed, Peak XV, Khosla Ventures) and a Series B first close reported at $234M that put it at a reported $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech named as a strategic lead investor. As with any fast-moving startup, treat specific model sizes, prices and funding figures as vendor or press claims that can change; verify the current numbers on Sarvam's own docs before relying on them.