India’s AI startup Sarvam that Google CEO Sundar Pichai praised launches Indus AI chatbot app with multilingual support

Sarvam, an Indian artificial intelligence startup working on AI models for Indian languages and users, has launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile platforms. With this move, the company enters a crowded generative AI market that is currently led by global players such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with their respective AI chatbots – ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, respectively. The launch comes days after Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he is impressed with. Speaking at India AI Impact Summit 2026, Pichai specifically highlighted Sarvam AI for developing local AI models tailored to Indian languages and contexts saying “The work Sarvam has done developing local AI models ….I just don’t see any impediments to that, and I think it is very, very well positioned”.

How Sarvam’s Indus AI chatbot works