India AI developer base huge

It was a sea of people the other day in Bengaluru at the Google I/O Connect, Google’s annual developer conference. Later during the day when we sat down for a conversation with Seshu Ajjarapu, senior director at Google DeepMind, and Manish Gupta, director of research at Google India, it was easy to understand the excitement.

Seshu said that over 2 million developers globally use Gemini, Google’s large language model, and they use it through what’s called Google AI Studio. And India, he said, is one of the largest user bases on Google AI Studio. They are using it to develop hundreds of applications. And we have two of those stories – on Miko and Cropin – alongside this one. We also met Manu Chopra, co-founder of Karya, who is using Gemini to design a no-code solution that allows members in marginalised communities to provide very rich datasets for AI development.