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India\u2019s AI model output has been slow compared to the U.S., Europe, and China. Only a few startups are releasing models, and most of them are large language models or voice models. To encourage more development, the government launched the India AI Mission<\/a>, a roughly $1.2 billion initiative that \u2014 among other things \u2014 gives selected startups access to subsidized GPU compute in exchange for releasing their models publicly. One of the 12 startups selected for the program, Avataar AI<\/a>, has launched a new video model called Varya that is built to understand local context \u2014 such as identifying different festivals, food, and clothing.<\/p>\n