Ashwini Vaishnaw: India's Sovereign AI Strategy Delivers Results, Sarvam AI Praised

• Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated India's 'sovereign model strategy is delivering results' after Silicon Valley critic Deedy Das praised Indian startup Sarvam AI.
• Deedy Das, who previously downplayed Indian AI models, lauded Sarvam AI's advanced models, including Sarvam Vision and Bulbul.
• Sarvam Vision reportedly outperforms major AI models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude in optical character recognition (OCR) benchmarks.
• Sarvam Vision achieved an 84.3% accuracy on olmOCR-Bench, surpassing Gemini 3 Pro and other OCR models.
• Deedy Das highlighted Sarvam AI's excellent text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and OCR models for Indic languages, calling them valuable and reasonably priced.