सा विद्या या विमुक्तये

"That which liberates is knowledge" — our guiding philosophy

We build AI that makes knowledge accessible, reasoning transparent, and intelligence genuinely useful — for every person, in every language, across this extraordinary country.

Our Story

AryavartaAI was founded in Bengaluru in 2023 by a group of researchers and engineers who had spent years working at frontier AI labs abroad and returned home with a shared question: why doesn't the most powerful AI in the world speak Tamil, or understand a Sanskrit shloka?

The answer wasn't technical — the methods existed. What was missing was the will, the data, and the cultural investment. So we built it.

We started with AryaMini, a compact multilingual model that could run on modest hardware and understand 12 Indian languages. Within six months, over 50,000 developers had integrated it into applications serving tens of millions of users.

Today, AryavartaAI is a team of 280 researchers, engineers, and product designers spread across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Delhi — working toward a single mission: sovereign, safe, beneficial AI that draws its strength from the world's oldest living knowledge tradition.

2023

Founded in Bengaluru by researchers returning from global AI labs

1280+

Team members across 5 Indian cities

10M+

Developers and users on the AryavartaAI platform

22

Indian languages supported across all models



Values

What we believe in

The principles that shape every decision, from research priorities to hiring.

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Rootedness

We draw strength from tradition while building for the future. Provenance matters.

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Rigour

We hold our work to the highest scientific standards. Good intentions are not enough.

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Inclusion

India is not one thing. We build for all its languages, regions, castes, and communities.

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Responsibility

We ship carefully. We will never race to the bottom on safety for competitive advantage.

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Openness

We publish our research, share our safety learnings, and are honest about what we don't know.


Timeline

Key milestones

2023

AryavartaAI founded in Bengaluru

Three co-founders, a small seed round, and a vision for sovereign Indian AI.

2023

AryaMini released

First model supporting 12 Indian languages. 50K developers in the first 6 months.

2024

Series A — ₹2 Crore raised

Led by a consortium of Indian and global investors. 80 team members.

2024

AryaGPT-1 launched

Frontier multilingual model with 22 Indian language support. 1M users in week one.

2025

AryaVision & AryaCode released

Expanding beyond text into vision, code, and audio for Indian contexts.

2025

Series B — ₹10 Crore raised

Valuation crosses ₹3,000 Crore. 1200+ team members, 8 offices.

2026

AryaGPT-2 Ultra — today

Our most capable model yet. 200K context, reasoning, and agentic capabilities.

Join us in building the future

We're hiring researchers, engineers, designers, and operators who care about AI that actually works for India.