It’s fascinating to see the growth of India’s developer ecosystem over the years and the positive impact it has today in the lives of billions of people across the globe. The ecosystem, one of the largest in the world, has been using technology to build innovative solutions for crucial areas, and continues to take new strides in bolstering India’s position as a global innovation hub. The time for Indian developers to scale has never been better with new technologies, surfaces, and users emerging in the digital landscape.
At Google, we have been making deep investments to empower the ecosystem with a rich set of open and integrated technologies, helping them leverage the power of our cloud services, web browser, mobile platform, and breakthroughs in AI. Building on our commitment, today at our first I/O Connect event in Bengaluru, India, in the presence of over 2,000 passionate innovators, we shared a slate of tools and technologies to help India’s developers build high-quality and scalable solutions for the country and the world in the most productive, creative, and responsible way.
Build generative AI applications with PaLM API, MakerSuite, and Vertex AI
We want to help all developers benefit from today’s new era of generative AI to build powerful products and experiences. Developers in India can now access our state-of-the-art large language model, that also powers Bard, through
PaLM API
and
MakerSuite
, an easy-to-use tool that helps create and prototype prompts directly in the browser. PaLM API is also accessible via
Firebase Extensions
, enabling developers to add a chat interface for continuous dialog, text summarization, and more.
Generative AI support is also available on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, to help developers build and power custom enterprise-ready generative AI applications. With this update, developers can access our text model powered by PaLM 2, Embeddings API for text, and other foundation models in
Model Garden
, and leverage user-friendly tools in
Generative AI Studio
for model tuning and deployment.
We introduced
three new models
in Vertex AI including, Codey for code completion and generation, which you can train on your own code base to help you build applications fast, Chirp, a universal speech model, which brings speech-to-text accuracy for over 300 languages, and Imagen which powers image generation editing and customization from text inputs. We also bring Security AI Workbench, an industry-first extensible platform powered by a specialized, security large language model called Sec-PaLM which is trained on PaLM2 and fine-tuned for security use cases. The new feature helps scale cybersecurity teams by explaining attack paths of threat actors, generating case investigation reports, and monitoring digital threats to help protect you from being the next victim.
Accelerator and startup credits program for ONDC, to support the growth of India’s digital sellers
We’re excited to launch an accelerator program for ONDC (Open Network for Digital Commerce) to help businesses with the tools and resources they need to build and scale their digital commerce operations. Google Cloud is open sourcing a ready implementation of ONDC infrastructure and core APIs. This implementation is specifically designed to facilitate scalability and security, enabling them to concentrate on business critical tasks on the network. Businesses will also have access to our Retail AI technology that will help enhance search experiences on the network, and our PaLM API to help improve the quality and descriptions of catalogs using generative AI.
To further support the ONDC ecosystem, we’re introducing a startup credits program where organizations that enable ONDC are eligible to apply for a USD $25,000 grant.
Opening access to research models and datasets to help developers build meaningful solutions