Pratyush Kumar

Co-founder of Sarvam AI, an India-focused applied AI company building sovereign AI infrastructure, Indian-language foundation models, speech AI, and developer platforms. He previously helped lead open-source Indian-language AI efforts through AI4Bharat, earned a PhD from ETH Zurich, and has worked as a researcher at IBM and Microsoft Research.

Sarvam and NVIDIA Build Full-Stack Sovereign AI Infrastructure for India

Sarvam co-founder Pratyush Kumar argues that India’s AI sovereignty cannot mean putting Indian-language interfaces on foreign-built systems. In a NVIDIA-backed account of Sarvam’s work, he describes a full-stack effort to build foundational models, data pipelines, inference systems and developer APIs inside India, using NVIDIA H100 clusters and NeMo tooling to process Indian-language data at scale. The case is that voice-first AI for India’s population requires domestic capability across data, models, applications and accelerated-compute expertise.

NVIDIAJun 1, 20265 min read