IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that Indian AI models perform better than counterparts from OpenAI, Google, and High-Flyer on many parameters. These homegrown platforms will be showcased at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi next week. The development has reinforced confidence in India's ability to build models with limited resources.
New Delhi: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday that Indian AI models perform better than global counterparts such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini Pro, and High-Flyer's Deepseek on many parameters. Speaking at the Times Group's ET NOW Global Business Summit, he stated, “In the AI Summit, we will be launching our bouquet of sovereign models… some of the models which have been tested… on so many parameters the models are better than OpenAI [GPT], [Google’s] Gemini Pro and [High-Flyer’s] Deepseek. And that is giving us the confidence that we can develop models on very frugal, innovative, setups and resources…they can actually beat world models.”
During a 14-day AI product shipping that began earlier this month, Indian startup Sarvam unveiled several models, claiming that some outperform global peers. The firm said its Saaras V3 model beat Deepgram Nova-3, ElevenLabs Scribe v2, Gemini 3 Pro, and GPT-4o Transcribe across the 10 most spoken Indian languages on the IndicVoices benchmark while maintaining low latency in real time.
Sarvam Vision achieved 84.3% accuracy on the English subset of olmOCR-Bench, surpassing Gemini 3 Pro and DeepSeek OCR 2. The Information Technology minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch some of the sovereign models at the AI Impact Summit.
