{"id":1047762,"date":"2026-11-07T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047762"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T04:23:53","slug":"eka-1-dhir-2b-and-dhir-5b-how-indias-new-ai-models-stack-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/07\/eka-1-dhir-2b-and-dhir-5b-how-indias-new-ai-models-stack-up\/","title":{"rendered":"EKA-1, Dhir-2B and Dhir-5B: How India\u2019s new AI models stack up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has rolled out three homegrown AI foundation models for India\u2019s specific use cases. Following on the footsteps of Sarvam, which has been pushing for localised AI models, the MeitY has been backing Soket Labs\u2019 massive, cloud-scale EKA-1 alongside ZenteiQ AiTech\u2019s lightweight, edge-native Dh\u012br 2B and Dh\u012br 5B. <\/p>\n<p>Under the IndiaAI Mission, these models are executing a dual-track playbook designed to balance raw enterprise compute with secure, zero-latency local processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has rolled out three homegrown AI foundation models for India\u2019s specific use cases. Following on the footsteps of Sarvam, which has been pushing for localised AI models, the MeitY has been backing Soket Labs\u2019 massive, cloud-scale EKA-1 alongside ZenteiQ AiTech\u2019s lightweight, edge-native Dh\u012br 2B and Dh\u012br 5B. Under the IndiaAI Mission, these models are executing a dual-track playbook designed to balance raw enterprise compute with secure, zero-latency local processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047808,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047762\/revisions\/1047808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}