To empower India’s developer community with cutting-edge on-device intelligence, agentic capabilities, and localised AI innovations, Google unveiled new AI advancements at the Google I/O Connect Bengaluru 2025 event. In addition, the company announces a new accelerator with Unity, launches optimised AI templates and agentic tools in Firebase Studio, highlights the Play and Android ecosystem’s Rs 4 lakh crore revenue contribution to India’s app publishers and digital economy in 2024, and partners with three India AI Mission startups. It also brings on-shore processing for Gemini 2.5 Flash to India.
Gemini 2.5 Flash processing is now accessible in India, expanding localised AI capabilities for Indian developers, notably in regulated industries such as healthcare, banking, and finance. The company’s Gemma models are helping India’s AI goal, with Sarvam, Soket AI, and Gnani developing next-generation Make in India AI models using Gemma. Google collaborated with Sarvam to develop the Sarvam-Translate methodology for translating long-form text, utilising Gemma. This move aims to provide top-tier stability and speed to developers.
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Google has partnered with BharatGen at IIT Bombay to create indigenous Indic language Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech models, intending to improve Gemma‘s efficacy in the Indic context, particularly for historically under-represented languages and government applications.
Google is enhancing the accuracy of information in Google Maps, which now covers over 250 million sites worldwide, to help developers create more effective generative AI tools for India’s mobile commerce industry. The new India-specific price for the Google Maps Places UI Kit will allow developers to construct user-friendly widgets and components at a lower cost. Additionally, AI-powered summaries in the Places API will be expanded to India, allowing for more informative and engaging location-based services.
Google has added additional agentic tools and features to its Cloud-based agentic AI workspace, Firebase Studio. These include optimised AI templates, Agent Mode, workspace forking, Firebase backend service integration, and Firebase Hosting deployment. These capabilities seek to allow developers to collaborate, build, and launch their apps quickly and at no initial cost, hence improving the overall user experience.
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Google has introduced ‘Google Play x Unity Game Developer Training’, a free, immersive, and globally recognised training and certification program for India’s aspiring and professional game creators. The program, created in collaboration with Unity and the Game Developer Association of India, includes over 30 hours of comprehensive online training spread across three specialised learning tracks. The initiative will initially be available to 500 developers in India, with plans to expand its availability and scope. Google is also holding the Gen AI Exchange Hackathon, which enables developers to put their AI expertise to practical use and innovate.
