Avataar 将视频生成成本降低 20 倍以适应印度市场
avataar 发布了视频模型 varya，生成价格为每秒 0.005 美元——比 runway 等竞争对手便宜 20 倍。该定价针对印度对价格敏感且以视频为主的消费市场。
backed by peak xv and the india ai mission, avataar.ai released varya, a video generation model distilled from alibaba's wan 2.2. the model runs in 4 steps compared to 50, producing video 10 times faster on a single h200 gpu and at a cost of $0.005 per second. it is trained on curated data to recognize indian cultural nuances in food, clothing, and festivals, and will be released with open weights on the government's ai kosh portal. this move highlights india's pragmatic approach of prioritizing cost-effective applications over expensive foundation model training to drive mass adoption.