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Indian AI models outperform OpenAI, Google on key benchmarks: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw said homegrown platforms, which will be showcased at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi next week, has reinforced confidence.

Updated on: Feb 15, 2026, 06:44:42 IST
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New Delhi : Indian AI models perform better than their counterparts from firms such as OpenAI, Google and High-Flyer on many parameters, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, adding that the these homegrown platforms, which will be showcased at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi next week, has reinforced confidence in India’s ability to develop models using limited resources.

New Delhi, India - Feb. 14, 2026: Union Minister of Railways, Information and Broadcasting and Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw briefing the media on Cabinet decisions at the National Media Centre in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, February 14, 2026.  (Photo by RAJ K RAJ / Hindustan Times) (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)
New Delhi, India - Feb. 14, 2026: Union Minister of Railways, Information and Broadcasting and Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw briefing the media on Cabinet decisions at the National Media Centre in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, February 14, 2026. (Photo by RAJ K RAJ / Hindustan Times) (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)

“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,” Vaishnaw said during the Times Group’s ET NOW Global Business Summit.

During its 14-day AI product shipping, which began earlier this month, Indian startup Sarvam unveiled several models, claiming that some outperform global peers.

The firm said that 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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch some of the sovereign models at the AI Impact Summit, said the Information Technology minister.

 
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