Sarvam AI's Pratyush Kumar joins AI executive huddle with G7 leaders

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI co-founder Pratyush Kumar was among top artificial intelligence executives such as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei who joined the lunch meeting with leaders of the G-7 grouping here.

The G-7 leaders, including US President Donald Trump, France President Emmanuel Macron, were joined by AI executives such as Altman of Open AI, Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Alexandr Wang of Meta for the working lunch on the theme of AI and Digital Age, according to a list circulated by the White House.

Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI of France, Ren Ito of Japan's Sakana AI, Aidan Gomez of Canada's Cohere, Robin Rombach of Germany's Black Forest Labs, Uljan Sharka of Italy's Domyn and Victor Riparbelli of Britain's Synthesia were some of the other AI executives at the meeting.


Sarvam AI became India's newest unicorn this month after raising $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Sarvam is among a handful of startups attempting to build a full-stack AI business, spanning model development, inference infrastructure, and enterprise applications.

The startup says its models are designed for Indian languages and use cases, while its products are being deployed across sectors including banking, insurance, government services and defence.