Devendra Singh Chaplot, an IIT Bombay and Carnegie Mellon University alumnus who has worked at Meta's AI research arm, Mistral AI, Thinking Machines Lab and, most recently, Elon Musk's xAI, has joined Indian AI startup Sarvam as an adviser to help build frontier models. The announcement, made by entrepreneur Harveen Singh Chadha, coincided with the first day of Sarvam Epoch, the company's inaugural frontier AI conference, where Chaplot appeared on stage alongside Sarvam co-founder Vivek Raghavan for a technical session. Chaplot's academic record includes an All India Rank of 25 in the IIT-JEE entrance examination and an International Rank of 5 at the International Mathematics Olympiad, both in 2010. He completed a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2014, before pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. He began his industry career at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), went on to co-found French AI unicorn Mistral AI, was part of the founding team at Thinking Machines Lab, and in March this year joined Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX, working directly with Musk on training the Grok family of models. Sarvam AI, built under India's IndiaAI Mission, has released open models such as Sarvam-M and its 30-billion and 105-billion parameter systems.