Audio series platform Pocket FM has appointed former Meta AI (FAIR) scientist Vasu Sharma as its new Head of AI, strengthening the company’s push towards building advanced AI-led storytelling and content creation capabilities. He will report directly to Prateek Dixit, Co-Founder, Pocket FM, and will lead the company’s AI research and applied innovation initiatives across narrative generation, production intelligence, and large-scale localisation.
Vasu previously worked at Meta’s Facebook AI Research (FAIR) division, where he contributed to major multimodal and large language model programmes including Llama, Chameleon, MaVIL and several next-generation audio-video foundation models. He brings a strong academic and research pedigree, with over 90 research papers published across leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP and ICLR, collectively garnering more than 10,000 citations. His experience in long-context reasoning, narrative intelligence and advanced audio-video modelling positions him to accelerate Pocket FM’s ambition of becoming the world’s leading AI entertainment studio.
“Pocket FM sits at a rare intersection of AI, creativity and global storytelling. Very few companies in the world have this combination of scale, AI and a mature creator ecosystem. With a clear vision to build the world’s best AI-powered fiction writing model, the opportunity to develop fiction-native systems, creator-centric AI tools, and large-scale multimodal storytelling infrastructure on top of this foundation is incredibly exciting. My focus will be to advance the Pocket LLMs and evolve the AI CoPilot into the definitive creative assistant for writers everywhere, helping them ideate richer plots, preserve voice and emotional cadence, and localise stories with cultural precision,” Vasu Sharma said on joining Pocket FM. “Our ultimate objective is to unlock a new generation of IPs, powered by AI and enabled by humans.”
Vasu’s mandate will include advancing the company’s proprietary Pocket FM AI CoPilot and Pocket LLMs, which power story ideation, drafting, plot design, editing, emotional toning, and multi-language adaptation for its global creator ecosystem. He will play a critical role in developing new fiction-writing models, building creator-first AI tools, and scaling high-quality AI-assisted production workflows while maintaining the human-first creative ethos the platform is known for.
Commenting on the appointment, Prateek Dixit, co-founder, Pocket FM said, “Vasu brings world-class AI research experience, and his expertise in multimodal and long-form language models will significantly accelerate our creator-first AI vision. At Pocket FM, we believe AI should elevate imagination and not replace it. With Vasu leading our AI charter, we are poised to build more powerful versions of our AI CoPilot, advance our Pocket LLMs, and expand our ability to take stories global with cultural precision and scale.”
With this appointment, Pocket FM looks at continuing to build on its vision of using AI to elevate human creativity, expand its IP universe and deliver culturally resonant stories at global scale.
