Though there all the time seems to be hype and buzz round AI on social media, it appears that evidently India remains to be within the early days of its adoption.
Over 60 per cent of Indians usually are not accustomed to AI and solely 31 per cent have tried any generative AI instrument, in keeping with a current research collectively printed by Google and market analysis agency Kantar India.
The findings of the research are primarily based on a survey of 8,000 Indians from tier 1 and tier 2 cities between the ages of 18 and 44. They had been revealed at Google’s first-ever Gemini Day in India, the place it showcased stay demonstrations of a number of, newly unveiled Gemini options together with its Veo 2 text-to-video generator, Gemini Reside with Video, Gemini Canvas, Deep Analysis, and Audio Overviews.
“Gemini Reside already works in 9 Indian languages. Beneath the covers, my workforce has been onerous at work at making it perceive over a 100 Indian languages. In actual fact, we’ve been growing benchmarks that we’ve been sharing with the group. And our benchmarks present that it’s the finest mannequin bar none, in relation to the entire vary of one thing like 29 Indian languages,” Manish Gupta, Senior Director, Google Deepmind, stated on the occasion held in New Delhi on Friday, April 25.
He added that the lengthy context window of Gemini 2.5 has been a key development. “Gemini 2.5 additionally has superior coding capabilities […] It will probably course of a whole collection of novels, two-hour lengthy movies, or massive code repositories and nonetheless maintain monitor of particulars which might be buried in that long-form content material,” Gupta stated.
“Our focus with Gemini has all the time been to harness Google’s main innovation to construct a really private, useful AI assistant for everybody, and we’re glad to see that come alive in so many significant methods throughout ages, cities, wants, and languages,” Shekar Khosla, vp, advertising and marketing, Google India, stated.
‘Huge headroom for AI adoption in India’
The Google-Kantar research is predicated on face-to-face interviews with survey respondents comprising men and women from two socioeconomic lessons of households.
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Whereas Section 1 centered on measuring the consciousness and adoption incidence of AI instruments amongst a complete of 5,133 respondents, Section 2 handled the affect of Gemini in addressing the struggles of three,415 respondents. It seems that the research was carried out earlier than the complete rollout of the Gemini 2.5 fashions.
Over 93 per cent of Gemini customers surveyed reported a lift in productiveness upon utilizing the AI fashions. One other 95 per cent of the customers stated it helped spark their creativity, as per the research.
“Moreover, 80 per cent report Gemini has helped with advanced decision-making or skilled steerage, 69 per cent say it supported their talent improvement and studying journey, and 77 per cent discovered it helped them pursue a brand new inventive or skilled pursuit,” the report learn.
Whereas the research didn’t point out the variety of Gemini customers in India, it was publicly reported not too long ago that the AI chatbot app’s customers have grown quickly to 350 million globally.
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Nonetheless, Gemini nonetheless trails behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which noticed month-to-month site visitors of an estimated 600 MAUs in March this 12 months, in addition to Meta AI which has an estimated MAU depend of round 500 million.