Sarvam AI names ex-Google Cloud head as president
By Abha Lohia ·
- Sarvam AI builds AI models, infrastructure and applications for Indian languages, serving enterprises, developers and government bodies
- The startup has appointed Sashikumar Sreedharan, who earlier led Google Cloud in India, as President and Chief Business Officer
- He will run commercial operations as Sarvam scales its sovereign AI platform and widens its model range, including a recent document-reading model
What happened
- Sarvam AI hired Sashikumar Sreedharan as President and Chief Business Officer.
- He previously served as managing director of Google Cloud India.
- He will lead the company's business operations and sales.
- Sarvam is building a full-stack sovereign AI platform for India.
Why it matters
- Shows Sarvam moving from research to commercial scale.
- Brings enterprise cloud selling experience in-house.
- Follows the launch of Sarvam Vision 2.1, a document-reading model.
The business
- Builds AI models for Indian languages.
- Sells tools and compute to companies, app builders and state bodies.
- Sarvam Vision reads forms, tables and handwriting in English and 22 Indian languages.
Words to know
- Sovereign AI
- AI systems built and run within a country using its own data and infrastructure.
Terms in this story
- Startup: A startup is a young company built to find a new way of doing something and to grow fast, usually by serving many customers at low extra cost. India's government also has a narrower legal definition that decides who gets scheme benefits.
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