Sarvam AI

The official Sarvam AI blog index documents an active release cadence of first-party posts across launches, research, and open-source drops. Recent entries include "Introducing Saaras V4: The Next Leap in ASR for a Multilingual World" (August 24, 2026, Launch), "Indic DiarBench: A Joint Diarization-ASR Benchmark Datase Further entries confirm founding milestones including a company post on "Sarvam Announces Sovereign AI Partnerships with Indian States" (February 8, 2026), earlier open-source releases such as "Sarvam Dub: State-of-the-Art Dubbing for Indian Languages" (June 7, 2025), "Sarvam Translate" (May 23, 2025), and "Sarvam-M" (

Sarvam's official API changelog documents several technical updates in September 2026. On September 15, 2026, the platform added Data Retention Controls allowing workspace Owners to set a default retention period at workspace level with per-product overrides for Model APIs and Voice Agents, affecting only forward-going On September 3, 2026, saaras:v4 became available on Sarvam's Realtime API alongside saaras:v3-realtime, sharing the same connection parameters and message protocol, with saaras:v3-realtime remaining the default. On September 2, 2026, Saaras V4 reached general availability on Voice Agents with automatic routing and no c

At its Epoch 2026 developer conference, Sarvam unveiled plans to build a trillion-plus parameter frontier AI model in India and launched Sarvam Inference, an India-hosted inference platform, per Inc42 reporting from July 30, 2026. Cofounder Pratyush Kumar stated the trillion-parameter model is being built from scratch The same Epoch 2026 announcement included a San Francisco office and the appointment of Devendra Singh Chaplot as an advisor. The conference also featured a broader product push across agentic AI, speech, vision, and enterprise productivity. The trillion-parameter roadmap is forward-looking, with the announcement-stage

Sarvam raised $234 million in a Series B funding round led by HCLTech with a $150 million strategic commitment, valuing the Bengaluru-based company at $1.5 billion and giving it unicorn status. Existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Peak XV Partners also participated, with Sarvam targeting a total $300 million raise. The investment reflects growing demand for sovereign AI infrastructure and supports Sarvam's full-stack approach spanning model development, inference, and enterprise applications. The deal pairs Sarvam's India-focused language models with HCLTech's enterprise relationships to commercialize AI across banking, insurance, government, and defense sectors.