India, July 6 -- At a time when India is beginning to think more seriously about foundational AI, sovereign capability and digital infrastructure at population scale, Sarvam AI has emerged as one of the clearest expressions of that ambition. For co-founders Dr.Vivek Raghavan and Dr.Pratyush Kumar, the challenge is not simply to build another AI company. It is to build a full-stack AI platform from India, for the world, while staying grounded in the country's real conditions: multilingual, voice-first, document-heavy, cost-sensitive and operationally complex.

That makes Sarvam's work especially significant. Its ambition spans research, models, products, deployment and population-scale use cases. It is building across language, speech, vis...