Google CEO Pichai introduces AI model that covers 100+ Indian languages

New Delhi: CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, on Monday highlighted investments in AI that the company shared at Google for India event to make India’s digital economy more inclusive, helpful, and safe by introducing a multimodal AI model that covers 100+ Indian languages, ML-powered bilingual search results pages (launching in India first), support for a new centre for responsible AI at IIT Madras.

Speaking at the 8th edition of the Google for India event, with Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology in attendance, Pichai said, “It is easy to build something which scales across the entire country and this is the opportunity that India has. There’s no better moment to do a startup, even though we are working through a macro-economic situation right now.”