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Google will partner with BharatGen at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to develop indigenous automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech models for Indic languages Manish Gupta Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind announced on Wednesday. Gupta was addressing a gathering at Google I/O Connect India 2025 held in Bengaluru where the IT giant announced new initiatives and AI capabilities to support the Indian developer and startup ecosystem. “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” he said. Google Partners With Local Communities According to him Google has also partnered with local communities to apply the research done at Google DeepMind to build impactful solutions for India across energy medicine and material science. “For instance 1.5 lakh researchers across India are using AlphaFold to help solve some of humanity’s most complex challenges from autoimmune diseases to cancer” he added. He also reiterated the recent announcement of Google that the subscription for Google AI Pro Plan will be offered to students across India for free for a year. Google’s Gemma Models Gupta said the company’s Gemma models are also contributing to India’s AI ambition. “Sarvam Soket AI and Gnani which have been selected by the India AI Mission are building the next generation of Make in India AI models based on Gemma” he added. According to him Google has been closely collaborating with Sarvam which built the recently-released Sarvam-Translate model for long-form text translation using Gemma. During the event Google also announced that it is expanding the availability of fresh and accurate information in Google Maps comprising over 250 million places worldwide enabling developers to build better generative AI features. Indians according to Google are the second largest number of active developers on Google Play across the world contributing over 10 lakh developer jobs in 2024. Targeting them Google launched ‘Google Play x Unity Game Developer Training’ a free immersive and globally-recognised training and certification program for aspiring and professional game developers in India. (With Inputs From PTI)