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B'luru founder to make case for Make in India at Stanford
Sarvam AI is expanding its Indian language speech and foundational AI models amid India’s sovereign AI push.
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Malvika Choudhary - Tue, 19, May 2026
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Pratyush Kumar / X/ Pratyush Kumar
Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Pratyush Kumar will pitch India as a destination for building artificial intelligence models and deep-tech products during a talk at Stanford Graduate School of Business on May 20.
Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Sarvam AI, is scheduled to speak at an event titled “The Golden Decade to Build in India: The Sovereign AI Full Stack Being Built by Sarvam AI,” focused on India’s emerging AI ecosystem and the push to develop homegrown foundational models.
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In a post on X ahead of the event, Kumar invited developers, founders, and researchers interested in AI model training and product development to attend the discussion.
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 pic.twitter.com/Y3ByhqTFey
— Pratyush Kumar (@pratykumar) May 19, 2026
“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,” Kumar wrote.
The Stanford talk comes as Indian-origin technologists and startups increasingly position India as a hub for AI development, particularly in language technologies and population-scale digital systems.
Founded in Bengaluru in 2023 by Kumar and Vivek Raghavan, Sarvam AI develops foundational AI models and applications for Indian languages. The company focuses on speech recognition, text-to-speech, translation, and optical character recognition (OCR) technologies aimed at improving AI accessibility across India’s multilingual population.
Sarvam AI has described its approach as part of a broader “sovereign AI” effort to build AI infrastructure and models trained on Indian datasets and languages rather than relying entirely on foreign systems.
The startup was selected under the IndiaAI Mission to help build indigenous foundational AI models and has received backing from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, and Khosla Ventures.
A day after the Stanford event, Sarvam AI is also set to host a webinar on its Saaras V3 speech recognition model and recent upgrades in diarization and transcription accuracy.
Kumar previously co-founded AI4Bharat, a research initiative focused on Indian language AI applications, and PadhAI, an online learning platform. He holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, and has worked with Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and IIT Madras, where he serves as adjunct faculty.
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