India's Sarvam AI outperforms global peers in OCR, speech models

IANS | February 9, 2026 2:52 PM

Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Bengaluru‑based startup Sarvam AI has claimed that its latest vision and speech models have outperformed larger global rivals Google Gemini and ChatGPT on key optical character recognition and text‑to‑speech benchmarks for Indian languages.

Trade deal unlocks $30 trillion US market for India’s exports

IANS | February 9, 2026 1:52 PM

New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) The India-US Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) marks a major milestone in India’s global trade engagement, securing sustained preferential access for exports in the US market valued at over $30 trillion, according to an official statement issued on Monday.