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Avataar.ai has launched Varya, an indigenous video-generation model built using subsidised national AI compute infrastructure under the IndiaAI Mission, designed to make AI-generated video dramatically more affordable and culturally representative for India. The model generates video at approximately ₹0.48 per second, making it up to 10 times more cost-efficient than several leading global video-generation models, thanks to a distillation technique that reduces the generation process from 50 computational steps to just 4. "Varya demonstrates that frontier-quality video AI can be made dramatically more efficient and accessible. For a country of 1.4 billion people, affordability is not a feature, it is a prerequisite," said Sravanth Aluru, CEO and Co-Founder of Avataar. The model supports text-to-video and image-to-video generation and is designed for applications across education, commerce, governance, citizen services and India's MSME sector. "The launch of one of the foundational models supported under the IndiaAI Mission marks a significant milestone in India's AI journey," said S Krishnan, Secretary at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Bengaluru-based Avataar, backed by Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners, has raised more than $55 million since its founding in 2014. Read the full story by Siddharth Jindal: https://lnkd.in/gWKrWvbz #Avataar #Varya #IndiaAI #VideoAI #MadeInIndia