Chariot

Building India's AI Ecosystem

What We Do

We are a frontier AI research lab based in India, building systems that can understand, reason, and interact with the world through vision, text, and audio. We are one of the four teams selected by the Government of India and the India AI Mission.

Who We Are

We're a team from Stanford and the IITs, from research labs like Google DeepMind and Facebook AI Research, and from top quantitative hedge funds. We are headquartered in Delhi, with deep expertise in foundational AI research and large-scale model training. Our work has been published at premier conferences including NeurIPS, ACL, and ICLR.

Chariot is led by Parth Sarthi and Suvrat Bhooshan. Parth previously worked at Google DeepMind on multimodal reasoning for Gemini Deep Think. Suvrat is Founder/CEO of Gan Studio and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, and previously worked at Facebook AI Research on multimodal transformers and distributed training at scale.

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Join us in building the defining technology of our time. We're hiring across roles: Engineering, Product, Design, and Sales.

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Or email us directly: careers@chariot.in

Contact

For general inquiries: hello@chariot.in

Newsroom

February 2026 Research Preview

Chariot to Unveil Its First Indic Speech Model at India AI Impact Summit

Chariot will announce the research preview of its first foundation model at the India AI Impact Summit — a large-scale speech generation model built for the linguistic diversity of India, backed by the IndiaAI Mission.

The model aims to enable natural, real-time human-AI conversation across multiple Indic languages and dialects. An interactive demo will be available at the summit.

India AI Impact Summit

Visit us at Booth 26, NVIDIA AI Innovation Pavilion (Hall 5) at the India AI Impact Summit. Come see the research preview live.

February 2026 Upcoming

India's Path to an AGI-Enabling Ecosystem — IndiaAI Summit

The Chariot team will present at the IndiaAI Summit on what it takes to create an ecosystem capable of supporting frontier-scale AI research in India.

They'll be joined by Tarun Dua (CEO, E2E Networks) and Shri Ghanshyam Prasad (Chairperson, CEA) to discuss energy and infrastructure readiness, human capital development, and democratizing AI resources across all five layers of AI infrastructure.

Feb 20, 2026 · 9:30 AM · Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, Auditorium — Shakuntalam Banquet

February 2026

Parth Sarthi's Interview on Doordarshan

Chariot co-founder Parth Sarthi sat down with Doordarshan to discuss Chariot's mission, the state of AI research in India, and the team's work on building foundational AI models as part of the IndiaAI Mission.

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January 2026

Chariot Co-Founders Meet Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi

IndiaAI Mission Foundation Models meeting

Chariot co-founders Parth Sarthi and Suvrat Bhooshan met with the Hon. Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi ji, at his residence and presented what they are building.

Chariot is one of four teams backed by the Government of India and the IndiaAI Mission to build foundational AI models from India.

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Voice AI

Voice AI for Indian Enterprises

Pilot AI-powered voice agents that speak your customers' language — for support, sales, and operations. Built on Chariot's Indic speech models.

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Early Access

Get early access to Chariot-1, our Reasoning Speech Model.

We express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the Government of India and India AI Mission for their support.