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Today we are launching Dhenu Vision: the vision intelligence API for agriculture. State of the art for identification of pests and diseases in real farm photos. 95.1% precision, where the best frontier model scores 84.6%.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

Up to 40% of the world's harvest is lost to pests and disease. Half a billion farming families carry that risk. Most of it starts with one missed or wrong diagnosis.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

A real plant rarely has one problem. Traditional AI identifies one issue at a time. Frontier vision language models hallucinate confidently. Dhenu Vision finds every issue: pest, disease and weed together, each boxed, each confirmed by a specialist model.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

It returns what a decision needs: - the finding, located on your image - calibrated confidence - advice you can act on - an answer to your own question about the photo

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

Coverage on day one: 85 crops, 986 pest, disease and weed issues, plus livestock and aquaculture. Every result localized end to end in 63 languages. Hindi to Swahili, names through advice.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

Built in India, benchmarked against the world. The debate is whether India can build frontier AI. In the layer that feeds people, we are not catching up. We are leading. Start today:

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

We end up creating an agricultural diagnosis benchmark from scratch. Will be releasing the benchmark, results, and whitepaper, next week.

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Shukla’s2 months ago

Don’t you think a phone app will help small farmers in India? Of course with affordable monthly subscription.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

We are working on a free one. Releasing soon.

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natwarlal2 months ago

Problem was never the model. It is who will capture the image. Will it be human, drone or jigbased overhead cams.

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Yogesh Kumar2 months ago

Please release the benchmarks to public and if possible, publish scores of Fable & GPT 5.6 Sol as well.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

Yes, Next week.

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Branding Waves2 months ago

Domain specific vision is where generic models start losing their edge.

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Pradhyuman Pandey2 months ago

Congratulations @chheplo , this is quite Interesting! I published a book chapter on Precision Agriculture, I want to understand this better, can we connect? link -

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Ithaca King Swamy2 months ago

Looks awesome

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Alisha Nanda2 months ago

Brilliant!

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Mariano Falcón2 months ago

@fpingham 👀

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Yugam Jethi2 months ago

The product layer now matters: show confidence, ask for a second image and route doubtful cases to an expert. That is how a strong model becomes a tool people can trust.

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Dev Aggarwal2 months ago

Its a good model sir

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KarmaDude2 months ago

Congratulations 👏🏻🙏🏻 Thanks for reminding us to care for the roots and bringing technology to the farmers.

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Bharat Aurangabadkar2 months ago

If only you can bring collective farming, India will be one of the most self-sufficient economies along the lines of China in food grains. We need one farming policy, one crop system and a clear cultivation policy with markets, then rewarding purchases with price points and open exports so they get good returns. Marginal farming has been the biggest curse on the economy. AI should be able to collectively decide a uniform cultivation strategy.

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Yogesh Kumar2 months ago

@vijayshekhar it'd be amazing if I could use PayTM as superapp in my farm to check this. Apart from getting credit.

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Nimish2 months ago

Man-o-man! This is huge

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Mac2 months ago

Much needed. Should also interlink into the data of efficacy proven solutions so the MRLs are below which help not just the farmer but also the consumer. All the best @chheplo

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toomadtoorad2 months ago

Awesome work!

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Azeem2 months ago

A 10.5% gap in real-world farm photos. This is exactly why specialized AI beats generalists every time. Frontier models chase broad benchmarks but they lose in the trenches where specificity matters.

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Vignesh Chinnadurai2 months ago

how can we get vision API access, could not find any info in your website for API.

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

and

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z_aqua2 months ago

What is happening with my timeline!! Kudos man! May Prabhu Shree Ram guide you to the path of least resistance

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Anuj Patel2 months ago

amazing model specifically for diseases and pest superb excited about the implementation

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RamEsh2 months ago

Distribution is the key... To reach every farmer .. isn't ?

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Tanuj2 months ago

This looks awesome! And thank you for not using an over the top BGM.

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Harlaksh Singh2 months ago

@um_aadi

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sid2 months ago

seeds and soil. both corrupted. soil can be there too. lots of cheap tools to monitor soil health.

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Suvrakamal Das2 months ago

The j curve in indian R and D has begun

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Kalidasu Giridhar2 months ago

Congratulations 👏🎉👏👏 💐💐💐

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Vichaarak2 months ago

Man I am feeling too jealous .. Since a month or so daily I am seeing 2-3 new startups doing this or that... Are we going to grow exponenyin next decade ?? WTF is going on ???

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Debraj Roy2 months ago

We need to think about how to run this on edge devices without internet

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Sid Sanghavi2 months ago

Wonderful work, Pratik! Check this out, @hareshsanghavi.

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Noctus2 months ago

Benchmarks?

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

There was none so we created one and will be publishing the benchmark and complete results next week

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Noctus2 months ago

just curious is there any free access for testers?

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Pratik Desai2 months ago

Yes

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Digvijay Ponia2 months ago

Kudos Pratik. Do you have idea about any vision model that can check a heap of Paddy or Wheat in an APMC, and then tell about moisture, black seed, stone mix etc. to Determine quality and can help with price. Such a model could do wonders. My father need one.

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sid2 months ago

🎮

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HamsIndia2 months ago

Hey, any info about the dataset? Is it os

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Bharat Policies2 months ago

Keep up the good work

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