Bengaluru: Google unveiled a range of initiatives aimed at propelling India’s AI Capability and Empowering Developers at Google I/O Connect India 2025 in Bengaluru on Wednesday. During the event, the key announcment was the localization of onshore processing for gemini 2.5 flash, enabling faster, low-latency ai performance for Indian developers-in-law As Healthcare, Finance, and Governance.

“Indian developers are written the next chapter of India’s success story, using ai capabilities to build real-will applies that are reaching millions of businesses and people accessia World, “Said Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and Apac at Google Deepmind.

The company also Emphahsized its Continued Commitment to India’s Developer Ecosystem, Revealing that the Play and Android Platforms Contributed ₹ 4 Lakh Crore and Genured 35 Lakh Jobs in 2024. Further Introduced Agentic Ai Tools and Optimized 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 Expeded Account to Over 250 Million MAPPED Places Globally and Launched India-Specific Pricing for Google Maps Ui Componants. Additionally, AI-Powered Summaries in the Places API will help developers create location-based services tailored specificly 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-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 Advanceing ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and TTS and TTS (Text-to-)) models for indic languages.

To support India’s thriving game development communication, google launched the ‘Google play x unity game developer training’ program, in collability with unity and gadai. Targeted at 500 Indian developers initially, the program offers over 30 hours of specialized training across the various game development roles.

Highlighting Grassroots Innovation, The Gen Ai Exchange Hackathon Encouched 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.