Pratyush Kumar studied Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. He then did a PhD in Computer Engineering at ETH Zurich, finishing in 2014.
In 2015 he joined IBM Research as a research scientist. He later spent two years at Microsoft Research.
He then worked with IIT Madras and helped start AI4Bharat, which builds open tools, datasets and models for Indian languages. He also co-founded One Fourth Labs.
In August 2023 he and Vivek Raghavan started Sarvam AI in Bengaluru. The company raised about $41M in December 2023 and $234M at a $1.5B valuation in June 2026.