Sarvam

startup

india · Founded 2023 · Valuation: $1.5B as of 2026-04

Sarvam AI is India's leading sovereign AI lab, founded in August 2023 by Pratyush Kumar (CEO, PhD ETH Zurich, co-founded AI4Bharat) and Vivek Raghavan (PhD Carnegie Mellon, ex-Aadhaar architect). ~$41M Series A from Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures; reportedly raising $300-350M Series B at ~$1.5B valuation with NVIDIA as investor. Inaugural member of the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition (GTC 2026).

Trains on 4,096 H100s via India's IndiaAI Mission. Flagship Sarvam-105B (Mar 2026, 105B/10.3B active MoE, 128 experts, 128K context, MLA-style attention) and Sarvam-30B are trained from scratch for India's 22 scheduled languages. AA Intelligence: 18 (105B). Full-stack approach spans text, speech (Saaras), vision/OCR, translation (with AI4Bharat), and hardware (Kaze smart glasses). Apache 2.0.

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People

Pratyush Kumar Google Scholar OpenReview — CEO & Co-founder (formerly ETH Zurich (PhD); IIT Madras; Microsoft Research; AI4Bharat (Co-founder))
Vivek Raghavan Google Scholar — Co-founder (formerly Carnegie Mellon (PhD); UIDAI/Aadhaar (Biometric Architect); AI4Bharat)

Outputs (2)

Sarvam-105B

model

2026-03-06

105B total / 10.3B active MoE (128 experts, top-8 routing) with MLA-style attention (decoupled QK head dimensions) and YaRN scaling. 128K context. Tra…

Sarvam-30B

model

2026-03-06

30B total / 2.4B active MoE (top-6 routing, GQA). 32K context. Trained from scratch for Indic languages. AA Intelligence: 12. Apache 2.0.