What motivated your team to build Varya, India's sovereign video foundation model?

Sravanth Aluru
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Co-Founder & CEO at Avataar

Niche: AI
Revenue: Not Publicly Disclosed/month
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Started: 2014

Generative media and video represent the next monumental leap in digital storytelling and enterprise commerce, but relying entirely on foreign proprietary models creates strategic vulnerabilities and unsustainable inference expenses. Developed under the IndiaAI Mission, Varya was engineered from the ground up to provide world-class open-weights video generation optimized for Indian computational efficiency, lowering operational costs by ten to twenty-seven times compared to global alternatives.

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