"Sarvam means everybody- AI should be for everyone." | Pratyush Kumar, Co-founder, Sarvam AI

[00:01:34] Introduction: Sarvam AI and Pratyush Kumar

[00:04:15] The Journey Begins: AI for Bharat

[00:05:39] AI for Bharat: What it began as and where it is now

[00:08:41] Sarvam AI: How it began and his co-founders

[00:12:26] Foundation Model and Application Model: What do they mean?

[00:16:06] Full Stack Company: The four layers of AI development

[00:21:18] Inferencing Layer: Example of real-world application

[00:27:17] Sovereign AI: What does it mean, India’s focus and other countries involved

[00:35:08] Aadhar to UPI to LLM: AI as a utility for everyone

[00:41:10] Investment into AI: Where does the money go?

[00:43:58] Cost of AI in the Future: Will it come down?

[00:45:12] Focus of Sarvam AI: Democratizing technology 

[00:47:00] AI for Bharat and Student Community: Benefits of a growing ecosystem

[00:51:31] Talent Pipeline for AI: Is there enough talent for AI roles

[00:54:52] Working in AI: Is it all work and no play?

[00:57:32] AI Integration in Daily Tasks: How accurate is AI?

[00:58:40] Future of AI: How does Pratyush see it evolving?

[00:59:16] Human-AI Relationship: The philosophical implications 

[01:02:28] Future Plans: What do the next few years look like for Sarvam AI?

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[00:02:39] IIT Madras

[00:02:50] Pratyush studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay

[00:03:04] Pratyush completed his Ph.D in Systems Engineering at ETH Zurich

[00:14:14] CFI students were the founding members of AI for Bharat

[00:09:18] Pratyush’s co-founder is an alumni of IIT Delhi

[00:21:43] UIDAI office houses some of Sarvam AIs models in GPU boxes

[00:35:50] Not too many other countries have applications like DigiYatra

[00:47:49] The Nirmaan centre plays a big role in bringing VC and Startup communities into the institution and exposing students to that culture

[00:52:18] The IIT Madras Research Park has companies built by students from other institutions.

[00:02:01] Union Minister of Railways for India, Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the Government of India has selected Sarvam AI to build the India sovereign LLM.

[00:04:06] Pratyush met Professor Mitesh Khapra when he joined the Computer Science department in IIT Madras.

[00:04:47] Nandan Nilekani invested money in AI for Bharat and Nilekani Foundation is a key sponsor of AI for Bharat

[00:09:13] Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Pratyush’s co-founder at Sarvam AI, was one of the founding members of Aadhar and continues to stay involved with them.

[00:41:30] Jensen Huang from NVIDIA thinks of GPU factories that will turn out data

[00:50:39] Professor Balaraman Ravindran heads the AI department at IIT Madras

[01:01:19] Amrut mentions a lecture by Professor VS Ramachandran 

[00:01:50] PeakXV (formerly Sequoia Capital), Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners are investors in Sarvam AI.

[00:01:56] Khosla Ventures also invested in OpenAI

[00:03:15] Pratyush joined IBM Research after completing his Systems Engineering Ph.D.

[00:06:05] Pratyush recently gave the keynote at an AWS event. 

[00:08:43] Pratyush also spent some time at Microsoft Research where he got a view of what was happening in the AI space

[00:13:15] Companies like Google and Meta have been building their in-house foundation models. 

[00:57:07] iPhone’s Face Unlock was a big moment in technology

[00:02:08] The India AI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem and drive the responsible and inclusive growth of India's AI ecosystem.

[00:03:18] AlexNet is a convolutional neural network architecture developed for image classification tasks

[00:07:43] Bhashini Project is a Digital India initiative launched to provide language technology solutions for Indian languages, breaking down language barriers and enabling digital access for all citizens

[00:57:00] KYC and Face Unlock were functions that were performed by AI earlier