Chariot | Frontier Speech Reasoning Lab

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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February 2026 Recap

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

The Chariot team hosted a packed session at the India AI Impact Summit on what it takes to build an ecosystem capable of supporting frontier-scale AI research and sovereign foundational models in India.

Hosted by Suvrat Bhooshan, the session brought together Shri Ghanshyam Prasad (Chairperson, CEA), Tarun Dua (Founder & MD, E2E Cloud), Prof. Jayadeva (GSV Chair, IIT Delhi), and Parth Sarthi (Co-Founder, Chariot) across energy, compute, research, talent, and model training.

Feb 20, 2026 · Sushma Swaraj Bhavan, Auditorium — Shakuntalam Banquet

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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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