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Artificial intelligence has largely been shaped by English-language data and perspectives, leaving billions of non-English speakers at a disadvantage. For India, home to 1.4 billion people speaking over 122 languages and more than 1,600 dialects, this gap has been especially wide. The Sarvam AI startup program India aims to change this by supporting startups that build AI products rooted in Indian languages. This initiative is part of a larger movement to create AI tools that

India’s technology landscape is evolving rapidly, but a significant challenge remains: most AI platforms do not fully understand or serve the linguistic diversity of the country. Sarvam AI, a Bengaluru-based company, is changing this by building generative AI that speaks all 22 official Indian languages. Founded by engineers Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, Sarvam AI is not just creating technology; it is creating tools that reflect India’s rich linguistic and cultural fabr