Benchmark-Based Comparative Assessment of Publicly Benchmarked Indian Foundation Models: A Capability and Evaluation-Maturity Framework
Purpose: Governments increasingly fund indigenous foundation models to strengthen national AI capability, digital sovereignty, and multilingual computing. This paper assesses India's foundation-model ecosystem and examines whether apparent capability gaps in public benchmark evidence may also reflect gaps in evaluation maturity. Approach: The paper presents a structured, benchmark-based comparative assessment of Indian foundation models against global frontier and comparable-scale models across eight capability domains: general-purpose reasoning, coding and software engineering, agentic AI and computer use, cybersecurity, vision and image understanding, video and multimodal understanding,...
| Authors | Avinash Agarwal, Vridhi Jain |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 12 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 16 August 2026 |
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