Sarvam Ropes In Mistral AI Founding Team Member Devendra Chaplot As Advisor

AI unicorn Sarvam has appointed Devendra Singh Chaplot, a founding team member at France-based Mistral AI and former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab, as an advisor as the startup steps up its push to build frontier AI models in India.

Chaplot’s appointment was announced today at Sarvam’s first developer conference, Epoch 2026, alongside a slew of launches across agentic AI, speech, vision and enterprise productivity.

Prior to this, Chaplot served as the pre-training lead at Elon Musk-led xAI. 

His appointment comes as Sarvam plans to build a foundational model with more than one trillion parameters from scratch in India.

The Bengaluru-based AI unicorn also announced the opening of a San Francisco office as part of its expansion.

Speaking at the event, Chaplot said building frontier-scale models in India was achievable with the right compute infrastructure. According to him, training a model with around 3 Tn total parameters could be done using 10,000 Blackwell GPUs over four to six months.

“The model is not the goal. The ability to build models is the goal,” Chaplot said.

The appointment comes as Sarvam looks to strengthen its frontier AI capabilities across coding, cybersecurity, simulation and scientific workloads.

(The story will be updated soon)

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