India, June 13 -- India will not lag in its efforts to develop foundational AI models, and those developed under the IndiaAI mission are a response to people who have questioned the country's potential in coming up with advanced AI platforms, a senior Government official said on Friday.

While launching the country's first video foundational model by start-up Avataar.Ai, Electronics and IT Secretary S Krishnan said that the Government has supported a range of foundational models across different applications, not just language models.

"For all those people who say that model making or these kinds of efforts cannot succeed in India, this (Avataar.Ai's video platform) is an answer that shows that it can actually be done, and it's an answer...