Google I/O Connect | Updates on developer centric project; tie-up with MeitY

Google on Wednesday announced a host of developer-centric updates along with news around its Gemini and Gemma AI models at its I/O Connect event in Bengaluru. Google DeepMind’s India team also revealed multiple initiatives including Project Vaani, a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science which will focus on capturing over 14,000 hours of speech data across 58 languages, collected from 80,000 speakers in 80 districts for developers. Additionally, they have also open-sourced a mix of specialised LLMs with Google’s lightweight Gemma AI models, called the Composition of Language Models framework or CALM. Google also confirmed that developers in India will finally be able to access the expanded context window with up to 2 million parameters on the latest Gemini 1.5 Pro model and Gemma 2.