Sri Lankan startup Roar Global has launched Roar AI, a platform that lets developers, startups, and businesses access more than 200 global artificial intelligence models through a single gateway.
The platform aggregates models from providers including Anthropic, Gemini, Perplexity, Llama, DeepSeek, and Mistral. Instead of managing separate accounts and billing relationships with multiple providers, users can route requests across different models from one interface, selecting the most suitable option for each task without multiplying administrative overhead.
Mustafa Kassim, founder and CEO of Roar Global, said the initiative emerged from observing how local organisations struggled with fragmented access to international AI services, complicated payment systems, and the absence of nearby infrastructure for hosting applications.
“AI adoption should not be limited by where a business is based or by how easily it can access global infrastructure,” Kassim said. “We built Roar AI to bring the world’s leading AI capabilities closer to Sri Lankan builders and businesses, together with the infrastructure and local expertise they need to turn those capabilities into real products.”
Infrastructure and Local Support
Beyond model access, Roar AI includes deployment infrastructure for locally hosted applications, integrated databases, transactional email, and automated backups. The platform also provides usage controls and budget tools that allow organisations to set guardrails for how different teams interact with AI systems.
Billing in Sri Lankan rupees gives local businesses greater predictability when managing AI expenditure, according to the company. Local engineering support provides an alternative to troubleshooting international infrastructure remotely.
The platform functions as an infrastructure layer rather than a standalone chatbot or application. Developers connect AI models to their own products and workflows, enabling teams to experiment with different providers, optimise for cost and performance, and scale as needed.
The launch marks Roar Global’s continued expansion beyond its origins as a digital media and platform consultancy. The group has repositioned itself as a venture-building operation spanning AI, technology platforms, and the creator economy. Its teams have already processed more than 10 billion AI tokens across the products and applications they have built.
Kassim said the broader ambition extends beyond offering a local platform.
“We don’t want Sri Lanka to simply be a market that consumes AI products built elsewhere,” he added. “We want Sri Lankan developers and businesses to have the infrastructure to build those products here and take them to the world.”
Roar AI is currently being introduced to selected builders and early adopters in Sri Lanka.