Pocket FM has appointed former Meta AI (FAIR) scientist Vasu Sharma as its new Head of AI, strengthening its focus on AI-driven storytelling and content creation. He has reported to Prateek Dixit, Co-Founder, Pocket FM, and has taken charge of the company’s AI research and applied innovation across narrative generation, production intelligence, and large-scale localisation.
In this role, Sharma has led efforts to advance Pocket FM’s proprietary AI CoPilot and Pocket LLMs, which have powered story ideation, drafting, plot development, editing, emotional toning, and multilingual adaptation for creators on the platform. He has also been responsible for building new fiction-writing models, developing creator-first AI tools, and scaling AI-assisted production workflows while maintaining a human-led creative approach.
Prior to joining Pocket FM, Sharma has worked at Meta’s Facebook AI Research (FAIR), where he has contributed to major multimodal and large language model initiatives including Llama, Chameleon, MaVIL, and next-generation audio-video foundation models. He has published over 90 research papers across leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP and ICLR, earning more than 10,000 citations. His experience in long-context reasoning, narrative intelligence, and audio-video modelling has aligned with Pocket FM’s plans to expand its AI-led storytelling capabilities.
The appointment has come as Pocket FM has continued to invest in AI to support creators, expand its intellectual property portfolio, and scale culturally localised storytelling for global audiences.
“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,” 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 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,” Prateek Dixit, co-founder, Pocket FM said.
