Sarvam Sovereign AI Platform

Sarvam AI, legally Axonwise Private Limited, is a Bengaluru company founded in 2023 by Vivek Raghavan, who helped build India's Aadhaar digital ID system, and Pratyush Kumar, former lead of AI4Bharat. It builds a full-stack sovereign AI platform so that banks, insurers, lenders and public agencies can serve users in local languages with models trained and hosted under their control.

The platform combines its own models for speech recognition, text-to-speech, translation and document digitisation with ready-made Voice Agents, Doc Agents, Work Agents and Coding Agents, plus Indus Cowork, an agent workspace connected to 100+ apps. Everything is exposed through a REST API and Python SDK and can run on Sarvam Cloud, a private VPC, on-premises or air-gapped. Customers include Tata Capital, Axis Bank, SBI Life, LIC and Infosys.

• Voice Agents: multilingual conversational agents for customer service and collections.
• Speech models: Saaras speech recognition and Bulbul text-to-speech for Indic languages.
• Doc Agents and Sarvam Vision: document digitisation and intelligence from PDFs and images.
• Indus Cowork: agent workspace for research, data analysis, presentations and workflow automation.
• Developer access: REST API, Python SDK and browser playground.
• Sovereign deployment: managed cloud, private VPC, on-premises or air-gapped with audit trails.

Consumer finance companies in Vietnam can study Sarvam's voice-agent model for multilingual collections and onboarding calls. Insurers can digitise claim documents with document agents. System integrators can partner on co-building sovereign models for local languages.

Lets regulated companies run voice and document AI in local languages without sending data to foreign clouds. Speech recognition covers 12 Indic languages, text-to-speech 11 and translation 23, according to the site. The platform claims sub-100 ms median latency and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Forward-deployed engineers support customers through production.

Governments and regulated industries across Asia are investing in sovereign AI built for local languages and hosted domestically. Vietnam's banks, insurers and public services share the need for voice and document AI that handles local speech and complies with data localisation rules.

Founded in 2023 in Bengaluru; emerged from stealth in December 2023 with a USD 41 million Series A led by Lightspeed with Peak XV and Khosla Ventures. Releases in 2026 include Saaras V4, Sarvam Vision 2.1 and Bulbul V4 Flash. Lists ISO 27001, SOC 2 and India DPDP compliance.