Sarvam AI is developing a sovereign AI architecture aimed at India, creating specialized large models and a reasoning layer tailored for native languages and high-security use cases. The company is producing models such as Sarvam-30B and a defense-grade platform called Chanakya, and is positioned to serve government departments and global enterprises targeting next‑billion users. Its technical roadmap leverages a government-backed allocation of 4,096 NVIDIA H100 GPUs under the IndiaAI Mission. Co-founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar lead the initiative, and the company emphasizes India-centric intelligence and multilingual enterprise agility. Financially, Sarvam is closing a $300–350 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Bessemer Venture Partners with strategic backing from NVIDIA, Amazon, and Prosperity7.

Total raised

$414M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Aug 2026