Sarvam AI's Kivi Lands Pre-Installed on HP Laptops Across India
Sarvam AI's Kivi voice app will come pre-installed on HP laptops in India, bringing 22+ language voice control to millions of PCs
- The deal: Sarvam AI and HP India signed an MoU; Kivi voice app will come pre-installed on HP laptops in India.
- What Kivi does: Voice dictation, content drafting, search, and cross-app assistance in 22+ Indian languages with code-switching support.
- HP's reach: HP holds 26.5% of India's laptop market, giving Kivi instant access to millions of devices without user acquisition costs.
- Sarvam's momentum: The company recently closed $234M at a $1.5B valuation, led by HCLTech ($150M), with Bessemer, Khosla, and Peak XV also participating.
- On-device privacy: Kivi runs fully on-device via Sarvam Edge (under 1GB), with audio never leaving Indian infrastructure unless device capacity is exceeded.
- Bigger picture: Voice is just the first collaboration; the MoU signals a broader AI partnership across HP's device ecosystem as India pushes for AI sovereignty.
India's AI sovereignty push just landed on the laptop. Sarvam AI and HP India have signed an MoU to bring Kivi, Sarvam's voice-first PC app, pre-installed on HP laptops sold in India. The announcement dropped on Independence Day, a deliberate signal that this is as much a national statement as it is a product launch.
What Kivi actually does
Kivi is a voice layer that sits on top of Windows and works across the apps you already have open. Instead of switching between windows and typing, you speak. The core capabilities are:
- Voice dictation -- speak instead of type, across any application
- Content drafting and rewriting -- generate or polish text by voice command
- Information search -- ask questions and get answers without leaving your workflow
- Cross-app assistance -- get contextual help regardless of which application is in focus
The critical differentiator is language. Kivi supports 22+ Indian languages and code-switching, letting people interact with the PC in the way they already speak. Code-switching here means the model handles mid-sentence language mixing natively -- someone switching between Hindi and English in the same breath, for example, which is how a huge portion of urban India actually communicates. Kivi is positioned as an alternative to the likes of Wispr Flow , but with a deep Indic language stack that Western tools simply do not have.
Under the hood, Kivi runs on Sarvam Edge, the company's on-device AI stack. Voice, transcription, and translation run in 22+ Indian languages, fully local, with no cloud, no latency, and no cost per query. The entire stack -- ASR (automatic speech recognition), translation, and synthesis -- is under 1GB. It has been validated for Snapdragon's Hexagon NPU across phones and Windows laptops. When the device runs out of headroom, inference overflows to Sarvam's India-hosted cloud, and data never leaves Indian infrastructure.
The players behind the deal
Sarvam was founded in 2023 by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar , and has grown rapidly into what the company calls a full-stack sovereign AI platform. Pratyush Kumar, CEO of Sarvam, framed the deal around the PC's enduring centrality: voice, he said, offers a more natural way to interact with it and can make that interaction available across the applications people already use every day. On the HP side, Ipsita Dasgupta, Managing Director of HP India, emphasized that AI adoption depends on how naturally the technology fits into the way people already work and learn.