Google Cloud has announced major artificial intelligence investments in India, strengthening the country’s AI ecosystem with expanded infrastructure and research collaboration. The company is increasing its local computing capacity through Trillium TPUs and the AI Hypercomputer architecture, allowing businesses and public sector organisations to train and deploy advanced Gemini models within India. This move is designed to meet data residency and sovereignty needs while ensuring lower latency for AI-driven operations.
Indian customers will now gain early access to Google’s most advanced Gemini models with full data residency support for the first time. The deployment includes Gemini 2.5 Flash with batch processing, Document AI for automating document workflows, and grounding features that use Google Maps for location-based responses.
IIT Madras launches Indic LLM-Arena with Google Cloud support
In partnership with IIT Madras, Google Cloud is backing the launch of Indic LLM-Arena, a new community-led platform developed by the AI4Bharat centre to evaluate AI models for Indian languages and contexts. The platform allows users to submit prompts in multiple Indian languages, including code-mixed queries such as Hinglish, and vote on anonymous AI model responses through crowd-sourced, blind comparisons.
“At AI4Bharat, our mission is to build AI for India’s specific needs,” said Mitesh Khapra, associate professor at IIT Madras. “Indic Arena will be that platform” for standardized benchmarking across India’s multilingual landscape.
The initiative aims to fill a key gap in AI benchmarking, which often focuses on English and Western data. Indic LLM-Arena evaluates models based on three factors—linguistic diversity including code-switching, cultural relevance to regional contexts, and safety measures against India-specific harms such as communal misinformation and caste-related bias.
Currently, the platform supports text-based evaluations but will soon expand to include vision, audio, and agentic tasks involving documents and web searches. Google Cloud is providing cloud credits to power the platform’s infrastructure.
These developments highlight India’s growing influence in global AI innovation. Saurabh Tiwary, Vice President at Google Cloud, said that India’s “developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leading enterprises are embracing AI with incredible speed.”
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