Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI raised $500 million in a Series C round led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a $4 billion valuation, becoming India most valued AI startup and one of the top ten AI companies globally by funding. Founded by IIT and IISc alumni, Sarvam AI specialises in building large language models trained on Indian languages and domain-specific data for healthcare, agriculture, and legal services. The company models support 22 Indian languages with accuracy benchmarks that exceed existing multilingual models for low-resource Indian languages by up to 40%.
Sarvam AI Co-founder Pratyush Kumar said the company plans to use the funding to double its research team to 600 scientists, build India first sovereign AI foundation model cluster with 10,000 GPUs, and deploy its AI products across government and enterprise clients in 15 countries. The raise reflects global investor conviction that India linguistic diversity and scale make it a uniquely important market for non-English AI development. Prime Minister Modi congratulated Sarvam AI and called the milestone an inspiration for India startup ecosystem and a validation of the government National AI Mission investments.