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Sarvam Names Sashikumar Sreedharan as President & CBO
Indian AI company Sarvam AI announced that it has selected former Google Cloud India managing director Sashikumar as its president and chief business officer (CBO).
Sashikumar will also become a member of Sarvam's board of directors. He will oversee the company's operations involving enterprises and government, while enhancing its collaboration with digital-native companies, developers, and partners.
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"He will also be responsible for Marketing, Finance, Forward Deployed Engineering, Service Delivery and Commercial Operations functions for the company," the company said in a blog post announcing the appointment.
Sashikumar has more than 30 years of experience in the technology sector and formerly served as managing director of Microsoft India's enterprise business for over five years.
The appointment occurs as Sarvam aims to grow its customer base and operations. The firm announced that over 100 businesses and government agencies are presently developing with its complete AI solution.
The upcoming stage of Sarvam focuses on enhancing our research, creating products cherished by people globally, and establishing a company capable of functioning at a significantly larger scale.
The company emphasized its commitment to enterprise-controlled AI, ensuring that data, models, and AI agents stay within the organization's management.
"India should be a maker of the intelligence the world runs on. For me, joining Sarvam is a commitment to that opportunity. I look forward to working with the team and our customers to build products that become part of how industries and governments operate," Sashikumar says.
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Sashikumar will also become a member of Sarvam's board of directors. He will oversee the company's operations involving enterprises and government, while enhancing its collaboration with digital-native companies, developers, and partners.
Earlier, Pratyush Kumar, the founder and CEO of Sarvam AI, is receiving accolades online for providing lifetime access to his company's AI model to a cancer survivor who uses it for text-to-speech communication. The touching act followed the user, Raghunath AS, posting his story on social media. Raghunath explained that cancer had stripped him of his 'gift of speech', compelling him to depend on written notes.
Although contemporary AI models finally enabled him to vocalize his ideas, the pay-per-character pricing structure rapidly rendered everyday communication costly. Raghunath emphasized that India has almost two million individuals with speech impairments for whom text-to-speech AI has been a boon. Nonetheless, the pricing levels prevented them from using it in their daily routines.
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When Raghunath's post gained widespread attention, Kumar swiftly replied, indicating that the company developed its product with this scenario in consideration. Kumar then declared that Raghunath's SarvamAI account was granted lifetime access to the AI models.
Kumar additionally urged others utilizing Sarvam for accessibility to contact them via email so the team could resolve the issue prior to the formal program's initiation. The exchange emphasized the strength of AI, with social media users commending Kumar for promptly utilizing the technology to assist those in need.
