Google to empower 10,000 Indian startups in artificial intelligence, unveils new tools

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Google on Wednesday said it is working with MeitY Startup Hub to train 10,000 startups in Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the tech giant expanded access to its AI models and introduced new language tools for the developers in the country...

At its I/O Connect event here, the company unveiled a range of tools, programmes and partnerships to empower Indian developers and startups to be at the forefront of the global AI revolution...

The company said that developers in India now have expanded access to Googles powerful AI models with the two million token context window in Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemma 2, the next generation of open models...

The Google DeepMind India team has expanded Project Vaani, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), which provides developers with over 14,000 hours of speech data across 58 languages, collected from 80,000 speakers in 80 districts...

Google is also collaborating with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), offering developers building for ONDC up to 90 per cent off on select Google Maps Platform APIs...