Sarvam AI

What Sarvam AI does

Sarvam AI is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, focusing on making AI widely accessible across the country. They develop frontier-class models and infrastructure designed for India's languages, culture, and context. Their offerings include APIs for text-to-speech, speech-to-text, translation, and document digitization, as well as platforms for conversational AI agents (Samvaad), content transformation (Studio), and enterprise AI agents (Arya). Sarvam AI emphasizes sovereign compute, data residency in India, and enterprise-grade security and compliance, with a commitment to empowering developers, enterprises, and government with AI tools.

Products

• Sarvam AI PlatformA full-stack sovereign AI platform providing APIs and services for Indic AI.
• Text to Speech APIConverts text to natural voices across 11 Indic languages.
• Speech to Text APIProvides high-accuracy Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) across 12 Indic languages, with options for diarization and translation.
• Translation APIOffers state-of-the-art translation across 23 languages.
• Document Digitisation APIDigitizes PDFs and images into structured formats.
• SamvaadA conversational AI platform for building voice, WhatsApp, and web agents in 11 Indian languages with sub-500ms latency, designed for enterprise deployment.
• StudioA platform for multilingual content transformation, including AI dubbing and agentic document translation for Indian languages.
• AksharAn intelligent document digitization platform that reads, understands, and extracts knowledge from complex Indian documents, supporting 22 Indian languages and English.
• AryaAn enterprise AI agent platform for automating complex workflows with full observability and deployment flexibility (cloud, on-premise, air-gapped).
• BulbulState-of-the-art text-to-speech models, including v2 and v3 versions.
• SaarasSpeech recognition API for 22 Indian languages, supporting transcription, translation, verbatim output, transliteration, and code-mix.
• MayuraState-of-the-art translation models.
• Sarvam 30BAn open-source reasoning model optimized for real-time deployment and conversational use cases, powering Samvaad.
• Sarvam 105BAn open-source reasoning model performing well on reasoning, programming, and agentic tasks, powering Indus.
• IndusAn interface to experience Sarvam's 105B sovereign model, focused on accuracy, usefulness, efficiency, and alignment for the Indian context.

Key capabilities

• Sovereign compute and data residency in India
• Frontier-class models built for India's languages, culture, and context
• Population-scale impact
• APIs for Text to Speech, Speech to Text, Translation, Document Digitisation
• REST API and Python SDK
• Playground for testing in browser
• Natural voices across 11 Indic languages
• High-accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages
• State-of-the-art translation across 23 languages
• Digitize PDFs and images into structured formats
• Conversational AI agents (Samvaad) for voice, WhatsApp, and web
• Sub-500ms latency for conversational AI
• Deep enterprise integration for conversational AI (CRM, core banking, payment systems)
• Real-time analytics and dashboards for conversational AI
• Omnichannel support for conversational AI (Voice, WhatsApp, Web simultaneously)
• Multilingual content transformation (Studio) with AI dubbing and agentic document translation
• AI video dubbing with voice cloning and timing maintenance
• Agentic document translation with formatting preservation and terminology enforcement
• Intelligent document digitization (Akshar) for complex layouts, Indic scripts, and tables
• Review and correction steps for document digitization
• Support for 22 Indian languages and English in document digitization
• Enterprise AI agents (Arya) for automating complex workflows
• Full observability and auditability for AI agents
• Deployment flexibility (Private cloud, on-premise, hybrid, air-gapped)
• Model agnosticism and vendor lock-in prevention for AI agents
• Checkpointing and instant recovery for AI agent workflows
• Structured feedback loops and persistent memory for agents
• SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified
• DPDP compliant
• Role-based access, audit trails, and data residency controls
• SLA-backed production support
• Custom enterprise plans available
• Open-source models (Sarvam 30B and 105B) available via API, AI Kosh, and Hugging Face

Use cases

• Government services reaching citizens
• Transforming customer experience for enterprises
• Building conversational agents fluent in India's languages
• Running enterprise workflows from start to finish
• Customer engagement for consumer loan products
• Automating policy inquiries, renewals, and claims
• Collecting structured citizen feedback for training programs
• Cart recovery
• Appointment booking
• Payment follow-ups
• Inbound support (e.g., merchant support helpdesk)
• Citizen service (e.g., AI Sachiv for Panchayat services)
• Sales (e.g., addressing customer concerns during loan sales)
• Live support (e.g., helping parents access learning resources)
• Collections (e.g., overdue loan follow-ups)
• Translating and dubbing content for multilingual audiences
• AI video dubbing
• Agentic document translation for policy documents, textbooks, forms, reports
• Making educational content accessible
• Public communication for government messages
• Reaching Indian language markets for publishers
• Dubbing shows and content for creators
• Translating training videos and HR policies for corporate L&D
• Converting administrative files, forms, historical records into searchable formats
• Turning scanned books, backlists, out-of-print titles into e-books
• Processing contracts, statements, court records, compliance documents for finance and legal
• Extracting text from manuscripts, newspapers, textbooks, primary sources for research and education
• Automating compliance reviews
• Automating customer operations
• Scaling multilingual voice AI for customer experience
• Turning doctor consultations into medical records
• Building AI applications for customer engagement and sales

AI approach

Sarvam AI builds and deploys its own proprietary, frontier-class AI models specifically for Indic languages and the Indian context. They focus on full-stack AI development, from data curation and model architecture to training, inference, and product deployment. Their models are designed for high-capacity reasoning with efficient training and deployment, utilizing Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Transformer backbone and optimized attention designs. They also develop evaluation frameworks tailored for Indic ASR.

Tech named: Sarvam 105B (Chat LLM), Sarvam 30B (Chat LLM), Sarvam Vision, Bulbul v3 (Text to Speech), Bulbul v2 (Text to Speech), Saaras V3 (Speech to Text), Sarvam Translate V1, Mayura V1 (Translate), MoE Transformer backbone, sparse expert routing, rotary positional embeddings, RMSNorm-based stabilization, attention designs optimized for efficient KV-cache usage, Grouped Query Attention (GQA), Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), LLM-WER, LLM-CER, Intent Score, Entity Preservation Score, COMET

Industries served

• Government
• Enterprise
• BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance)
• Education
• Publishing
• Healthcare
• Legal
• Research

What it says sets it apart

• India's full-stack sovereign AI platform
• Built on sovereign compute and frontier-class models for India's context
• Full control over build, deploy, and run AI, developed and operated entirely in India
• Human at the core: forward deployed engineers work alongside client teams
• Enterprise-grade security and compliance built-in from day one (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant)
• Deployment flexibility: private cloud, on-premise, hybrid, or air-gapped environments
• Proprietary models purpose-built for Indian languages, outperforming general models
• Sub-second latency for real-time voice interactions in Indic languages
• Contextual memory and cross-channel memory for conversational agents
• Pilot to production in days for conversational AI
• Intelligent document digitization specifically designed for complex Indian documents and scripts
• Review and correction capabilities for document digitization
• Open-source foundational models (Sarvam 30B and 105B) trained from scratch in India
• Model agnosticism and zero vendor lock-in for enterprise AI agents (Arya)
• Checkpointing and instant recovery for complex AI agent workflows
• 360-degree visibility and auditability for AI agent decisions
• Dedicated engineer support and partnership approach

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.