Google Expands Gemini AI Capabilities in India: Data Sovereignty and Multilingual Support

Driving large-scale impact for businesses and individuals through Gemini and Google Cloud

Data security and sovereignty are paramount, particularly for sectors like healthcare and finance where data residency in India is critical and mandatory. We're committed to empowering Indian organizations to harness the power of AI while maintaining complete control over their data. Earlier this year, we enabled organizations using Google Cloud's generative AI capabilities to store their data at rest in India, ensuring sensitive data remains within Indian borders. This includes Generative AI on Vertex AI - PaLM 2, Codey and Imagen models, as well as Text Embeddings and Multimodal Embeddings APIs. Building on this, we're excited to announce that later this year, Indian organizations across all sectors, including public sector enterprises, will have the option to both store their data at rest and conduct machine learning processing for our cutting-edge large language model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, entirely within India. This provides even greater control and security for organizations using our most-advanced AI models.

Bringing AI to every Indian across our products

This is the driving force behind our work at Google in India. Let's take a closer look at how we're doing it. AI has been transforming our products for years, helping us break down many information barriers. In fact, more people in India use innovations such as Google Lens, voice search, and Lens in Maps than any other country every month. We're excited about our next step in this journey with Gemini, our most capable AI model yet. Built to be natively multimodal, Gemini can understand and combine different types of information, including text, audio, image, and video -- all at the same time. This helps it better understand nuanced information across languages and extract insights from massive amounts of data in seconds. Today, we're bringing some of our latest innovations using Gemini models to India, taking another step towards our goal of empowering every Indian with the best of technology. The Gemini mobile app, your AI assistant from Google, is helping users in India tackle a wide range of tasks - from academic help and creative inspiration to understanding complex information. And, we want everyone to benefit from this and get things done in their preferred language. In India, with over 40% of Gemini's Indian language users already relying on voice interactions, we recently launched Gemini Live in English for even more natural and free-flowing voice conversations with Gemini on your phone. Gemini Live responds in real-time, adapts to your conversation style, and allows you to interrupt, ask follow-up questions, or come back later - perfect for learning new concepts or brainstorming. We're thrilled to announce that starting today, we're rolling out Gemini Live in Hindi, with 8 more Indian languages -- Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu -- to follow in the coming weeks!