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India.com
2 hours ago
- Business
- India.com
Google Unveils Key Initiatives To Boost India's AI Capabilities At I/O Connect 2025
Bengaluru: Google unveiled a range of initiatives aimed at propelling India's AI capabilities and empowering developers at Google I/O Connect India 2025 in Bengaluru on Wednesday. During the event, the key announcement was the localisation of onshore processing for Gemini 2.5 Flash, enabling faster, low-latency AI performance for Indian developers—especially in regulated sectors such as healthcare, finance, and governance. 'Indian developers are literally writing the next chapter of India's success story, using AI capabilities to build real-world applications that are reaching millions of businesses and people across India and the world,' said Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind. The company also emphasised its continued commitment to India's developer ecosystem, revealing that the Play and Android platforms contributed ₹4 lakh crore in revenue and generated 35 lakh jobs in 2024. Google further introduced agentic AI tools and optimised templates in Firebase Studio, allowing developers to build and deploy full-stack AI applications more quickly and efficiently. In a major move for mobile commerce, Google announced expanded access to over 250 million mapped places globally and launched India-specific pricing for Google Maps UI components. Additionally, AI-powered summaries in the Places API will help developers create location-based services tailored specifically for Indian users. To further India's AI ambitions, Google is collaborating with three India AI Mission startups—Sarvam, Soket AI, and Gnani—on Make-in-India AI models based on Gemma. Sarvam's recent model, 'Sarvam-Translate,' exemplifies this homegrown innovation. In partnership with IIT Bombay's BharatGen, Google is also advancing ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and TTS (Text-to-Speech) models for Indic languages. To support India's thriving game development community, Google launched the 'Google Play x Unity Game Developer Training' program, in collaboration with Unity and GDAI. Targeted at 500 Indian developers initially, the program offers over 30 hours of specialised training across various game development roles. Highlighting grassroots innovation, the Gen AI Exchange Hackathon encouraged developers to apply their AI skills to real-world challenges. During the event, startups such as Sarvam, InVideo, Glance, and Nykaa showcased impactful solutions built using Google's AI models.
The Hindu
2 hours ago
- Business
- The Hindu
Google Play, Android ecosystem generated ₹4 lakh crore in revenue for Indian app publishers in 2024: Google
Google on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) said, based on third-party evaluations, the Google Play and Android ecosystem generated ₹4 lakh crore in revenue for app publishers and the wider economy in India in 2024, and supported the creation of 35 lakh direct, indirect, and spillover jobs in the country. According to Google, the Indian ecosystem comprises the second largest number of active developers on Google Play across the world, contributing over 10 lakh developer jobs in 2024. Building compelling offerings on Android, this ecosystem has played an important role in shaping the impact and inclusiveness of India's digital economy. Approximately 72% of surveyed Indian users claimed their first access to the internet was on an Android device; some 85% say their Android phone is one of the main ways they access digital public services, and 69% report first using AI through an app on their Android device. Device makers have also been able to make devices affordable due to the open-source nature of Android, which has assisted in estimated savings of ₹25,200 crore in development and operating costs. At Google I/O Connect India 2025, an annual developer conference held in Bengaluru, Google announced new initiatives and AI capabilities to support the Indian developer and start-up ecosystem in the country. These included localising data processing of its high-performance thinking model Gemini 2.5 Flash, new Agentic AI tools in Firebase Studio, a new training programme with one of the world's leading gaming engine platforms – Unity, and collaborations with 3 India AI Mission start-ups in building innovative solutions toward the development of India's Make-in-India AI models. Dr. Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind, who opened the event, said, 'Indian developers are writing the next chapter of India's success story, using AI capabilities to build real-world applications that are reaching millions of businesses and people across the country and the world.' Preeti Lobana, Country Manager, Google India, who held a fireside chat with Subrata Mitra, Partner, Accel, on building enduring AI-driven companies during the event's opening keynote, said, 'India's developers are shaping how the world will use AI, and we're proud to stand with them. We're giving India the best tools, the most open platforms, and the strongest support to build boldly for the world, fostering a profound 'AI Productivity Leap' across businesses and start-ups.' Google said it was closely partnering with BharatGen at IIT Bombay to build indigenous Indic language Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models that would aim to make Gemma (a set of lightweight, generative artificial intelligence open models) more helpful in the Indic context, especially for historically underrepresented languages and governance applications.
Time of India
3 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
Google I/O Connect India 2025: Google brings its Gemini AI models to Indian developers
has announced a series of new initiatives and AI capabilities at Google I/O Connect India 2025 , focussing on localising technology and fostering innovation. One of the key announcements was the localisation of data processing for Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash model in India. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now This move is designed to provide developers with stability and speed, which is critical for building applications in regulated sectors like healthcare and finance, where data residency and low latency are non-negotiable. According to Dr. Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind, the role of Indian developers is crucial as they 'are literally writing the next chapter of India's success story.' . 'We remain steadfast in bringing them our industry-leading, cutting-edge capabilities to accelerate their journeys, and India's leadership in a global AI-led future,' he said. Google also highlighted its collaboration with three startups selected by the India AI Mission—Sarvam, Soket AI, and Gnani—who are building next-generation "Make in India" AI models using Google's Gemma models. This partnership extends to working with BharatGen at IIT Bombay to create indigenous Indic language Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models, making AI more helpful for historically underrepresented languages. Google introduces AI tools and training program for game developers Google introduced new agentic AI tools within Firebase Studio, its cloud-based workspace for building full-stack AI applications. These tools, including optimised AI templates, are designed to help developers create and deploy sophisticated apps more quickly and without upfront costs. The company also announced a training programme for game developers in partnership with Unity, a leading game engine platform, and the Game Developer Association of India (GDAI). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The free program, initially for 500 developers, will offer over 30 hours of online training to help participants build skills in game development, art, and programming. Preeti Lobana, Country Manager for Google India, pointed to the 'India Opportunity,' stating, 'India's developers are shaping how the world will use AI, and we're proud to stand with them.'
The Guardian
3 hours ago
- Science
- The Guardian
Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
In addition to sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a freshwater system and public health, the Romans also produced a lot of inscriptions. Making sense of the ancient texts can be a slog for scholars, but a new artificial intelligence tool from Google DeepMind aims to ease the process. Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing. Historians who put the program through its paces said it transformed their work by helping them identify similar inscriptions to those they were studying, a crucial step for setting the texts in context, and proposing words to fill the inevitable gaps in worn and damaged artefacts. 'Aeneas helps historians interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary Latin texts,' said Dr Thea Sommerschield, a historian at the University of Nottingham who developed Aeneas with the tech firm. 'That's the grand challenge that we set out to tackle.' Inscriptions are among the most important records of life in the ancient world. The most elaborate can cover monument walls, but many more take the form of decrees from emperors, political graffiti, love poems, business records, epitaphs on tombs and writings on everyday life. Scholars estimate that about 1,500 new inscriptions are found every year. 'What makes them unique is that they are written by the ancient people themselves across all social classes,' said Sommerschield. 'It's not just history written by the victors.' But there is a problem. The texts are often broken into pieces or so ravaged by time that parts are illegible. And many inscribed objects have been scattered over the years, making their origins uncertain. The Google team led by Yannis Assael worked with historians to create an AI tool that would aid the research process. The program is trained on an enormous database of nearly 200,000 known inscriptions, amounting to 16m characters. Aeneas takes text, and in some cases images, from the inscription being studied and draws on its training to build a list of related inscriptions from 7BC to 8AD. Rather than merely searching for similar words, the AI identifies and links inscriptions through deeper historical connections. Having trained on the rich collection of inscriptions, the AI can assign study texts to one of 62 Roman provinces and estimate when it was written to within 13 years. It also provides potential words to fill in any gaps, though this has only been tested on known inscriptions where text is blocked out. In a test run, researchers set Aeneas loose on a vast inscription carved into monuments around the Roman empire. The self-congratulatory Res Gestae Divi Augusti describes the life achievements of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Aeneas came up with two potential dates for the work, either the first decade BC or between 10 and 20AD. The hedging echoes the debate among scholars who argue over the same dates. In another test, Aeneas analysed inscriptions on a votive altar from Mogontiacum, now Mainz in Germany, and revealed through subtle linguistic similarities how it had been influenced by an older votive altar in the region. 'Those were jaw-dropping moments for us,' said Sommerschield. Details are published in Nature and Aeneas is available to researchers online. In a collaboration, 23 historians used Aeneas to analyse Latin inscriptions. The context provided by the tool was helpful in 90% of cases. 'It promises to be transformative,' said Mary Beard, a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. Jonathan Prag, a co-author and professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford, said Aeneas could be run on the existing corpus of inscriptions to see if the interpretations could be improved. He added that Aeneas would enable a wider range of people to work on the texts. 'The only way you can do it without a tool like this is by building up an enormous personal knowledge or having access to an enormous library,' he said. 'But you do need to be able to use it critically.'
The Hindu
4 hours ago
- Business
- The Hindu
Google Play, Android ecosystem generated ₹4 lakh cr. in revenue for Indian app publishers in 2024: Google
Google on Wednesday said, based on third-party evaluations, the Google Play and Android ecosystem generated ₹4 lakh crore in revenue for app publishers and the wider economy in India in 2024, and supported the creation of 35 lakh direct, indirect, and spillover jobs in the country. According to Google, the Indian ecosystem comprises the second largest number of active developers on Google Play across the world, contributing over 10 lakh developer jobs in 2024. Building compelling offerings on Android, this ecosystem has played an important role in shaping the impact and inclusiveness of India's digital economy. Approximately 72% of surveyed Indian users claimed their first access to the internet was on an Android device; some 85% say their Android phone is one of the main ways they access digital public services, and 69% report first using AI through an app on their Android device. Device makers have also been able to make devices affordable due to the open-source nature of Android, which has assisted estimated savings of ₹25,200 crore in development and operating costs. At Google I/O Connect India 2025, an annual developer conference held here in Bengaluru, Google announced new initiatives and AI capabilities to support the Indian developer and start-up ecosystem in the country. These included localising data processing of its high-performance thinking model Gemini 2.5 Flash, new Agentic AI tools in Firebase Studio, a new training programme with one of the world's leading gaming engine platforms – Unity, and collaborations with 3 India AI Mission start-ups in building innovative solutions toward the development of India's Make-in-India AI models. Dr. Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind, who opened the event, said, 'Indian developers are writing the next chapter of India's success story, using AI capabilities to build real-world applications that are reaching millions of businesses and people across the country and the world.' Preeti Lobana, Country Manager, Google India, who held a fireside chat with Subrata Mitra, Partner, Accel on building enduring AI-driven companies during the event's opening keynote, said, 'India's developers are shaping how the world will use AI, and we're proud to stand with them. We're giving India the best tools, the most open platforms, and the strongest support to build boldly for the world, fostering a profound 'AI Productivity Leap' across businesses and start-ups.' Google said it was closely partnering with BharatGen at IIT Bombay to build indigenous Indic language Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models that would aim to make Gemma (a set of lightweight, generative artificial intelligence open models) more helpful in the Indic context, especially for historically underrepresented languages and governance applications.
