Google launches new AI initiatives to connect millions of Indians

It its bid to connect the next one billion users, Google on Monday announced a slew of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered initiatives to address language divide on the Internet, supporting digitisation of farmland in partnership with the Telangana government, and new investments to drive responsible development of AI in the country.The company announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (Project Vaani), to capture diverse Indian dialects for building better AI language models.The move is aimed at collecting and transcribing open source speech data from across all of India’s 773 districts, making it available through the Centre’s ‘Bhashini’ project in the future, the company said during its annual flagship ‘Google For India’ event