The Google Gemini app – a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by the company – is now available in India, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday. The app, which Google first launched in February for the US, gives users access to the capabilities of Gemini – Google’s family of large language models (LLM). This makes the application available to users in English as well as in nine Indian languages. Furthermore, Google is also introducing support for these languages on Gemini Advanced.
Gemini app now in India
In a blog post, Google announced that the Gemini app is now available on the Google Play Store in India. It will support a total of 10 languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. To gain access to the AI chatbot, users can either download the Gemini app or opt in via Google Assistant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the announcement via a post on X (formerly Twitter). Furthermore, Gemini Advanced – a Google One subscription LLM with a larger token context window – is also getting an upgrade, Google said. It will leverage the power of Gemini 1.5 Pro in English as well as the same nine Indian languages supported by the Gemini app.
Using Gemini Advanced, users can now upload up to 1,500 documents of 1,500 pages or 100 emails and ask an AI chatbot to digest them. It will also provide content-based insights. Google says Gemini Advanced can now “clean, explore, analyze and visualize your data” from spreadsheets created in Google Sheets, CSVs or Excel.
The company says these files are not used to train AI models and remain private to the user. While the Gemini app is rolling out to Android users in India via the Google Play Store, iOS users will only be able to access it via the Google app.
Gemini in Google Messages
Google also announced that it is rolling out Gemini to the Google Messages app in India. While this feature was already available to users outside the country, Indian users can now chat with the AI chatbot in the Messages app. This feature is rolling out to select devices and requires an Android phone with 6GB of RAM or more.
