Rise of Sarvam AI as India’s voice in global AI policy talks
The highlight story of this year’s India AI Summit was probably neither the world’s top tech CEOs flying into New Delhi, nor the scale of business deals announced at its sidelines, and not even the star-studded interviews with Silicon Valley’s biggest names. For India, the most distinctive story was Sarvam AI – and the praise it drew from the very leaders who run the world’s most powerful AI companies. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in February, said he was ‘impressed’ by Sarvam’s progress in building foundational models designed specifically for Indian languages and real-world use cases. For a three-year-old startup out of Bengaluru, that endorsement meant something.
