- Published on July 24, 2025
- In Global Tech
Google Powers India’s AI Mission with Sarvam AI, Soket AI, Gnani.ai
Google is also working with startups, including CoRover, Glance, Entri, InVideo, Nykaa, Dashverse, and Toonsutra.
Image by Nalini Narid
- By Siddharth Jindal
Google has firmly placed its bet on India. It is stepping in to help the Indian startups develop their own foundational models. At Google I/O India 2025, Manish Gupta, senior director at Google Deepmind, announced that three startups, Sarvam, Soket AI, and Gnani.ai, are building local solutions on top of Gemma family of models.
In addition to startups, Google is collaborating with BharatGen at IIT Bombay to develop Indic language Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models. These efforts focus on making AI more useful in the Indic context, particularly for underrepresented languages and public sector use cases.
The company said the Gemma 3 series, including the lightweight Gemma 3n variant, is now available for Indian developers with applications ranging fr
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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