Krishna Srinivasan
Bio
Krishna Prasad Srinivasan is a Head of Vision Models at Sarvam, where he led a lean team to train Sarvam Vision, India's first sovereign VLM: a 3B state-space model that topped global OCR benchmarks at launch and led the Indic OCR Bench across 22 languages. He now leads the vision vertical's models, research, and product. Previously, he was Tech Lead for AI at Microsoft Research, where he built multilingual copilots for education and developed Indic translation models that outperformed commercial systems. Before that, Krishna was a researcher at Harvard, where he engineered a novel OCR architecture using contrastive learning that outperformed industry benchmarks on complex multilingual documents.
Session (1)
Krishna Prasad Srinivasan leads the Vision Models team at Sarvam AI, India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, where his team shipped Sarvam Vision, a 3B-parameter vision-language model for document intelligence, and built the open-source Sarvam-M 24B hybrid reasoning model for Indic languages. Attending his session offers an inside look at the engineering trade-offs of building production-scale Indic-language and multimodal AI, from post-training pipelines to inference optimization.
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