Google partners with TS govt to support farmland digitisation via AI

Hyderabad: In recognition of the step change in India's digital adoption, Google announced a series of new concerted initiatives with AI for India, aimed at addressing the language divide on the Internet, supporting digitisation of farmland in partnership with the Telangana Government, and new collaborations and investments to drive responsible development of AI in India.

Google also announced a number of new innovations across Search, focusing on bilingual users' needs and new search capabilities using camera and voice; new fraud detection model for secure digital payments on Google Pay and integration with Digilocker in the Files by Google app on Android to allow for easy access to key digital documents, privately and safely.

Google announced collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (Project Vaani), to capture diverse Indian dialects for building better AI language models. This collaboration is aimed at collecting and transcribing open source speech data from across 773 districts, making it available through the Government of India's Bhashini project in the future.

Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India, said, "As partners in India's digital transformation for nearly two decades, we're deeply inspired by the myriad ways people have woven technology into every aspect of their everyday lives, placing India's digital transformation at a tipping point."

Rama Devi, Director of Emerging Technology, Telangana, said: "AI can be a great tool for governments to drive transformational impact across sectors. We want to leverage AI to boost the contribution of agriculture while impacting lives at scale. Our collaboration with Google will play a critical role in us enabling agriculture solutions at a field level and sharing that data with the wider ecosystem."