Google Gemini app, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by the company, is now available in India, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday. The app, which Google first released in February for the US, allows users to access the capabilities of Gemini, Google's family of large language models (LLM). It is making the app available to users in English and nine Indian languages. Additionally, Google is also rolling out support for these languages in 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 10 languages in total: English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. To access the AI chatbot, users can download the Gemini app or activate using the Google Assistant.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the announcement via a post on X (formerly Twitter). Additionally, Gemini Advanced, the Google One subscription LLM with a larger token context window, is also getting an update, Google said. It will take advantage of the power of Gemini 1.5 Pro in English as well as the same nine Indian languages that the Gemini app supports.
Using Gemini Advanced, users can now upload up to 1,500 pages of documents or 100 emails and ask the AI chatbot to summarize them. It will also provide content-based information. Google says Gemini Advanced can now “clean, explore, analyze and visualize your data” from spreadsheets created in Google Sheets, CSV 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 will bring Gemini to the Google Messages app in India. While this feature was already available for users outside the country, Indian users can now have conversations with the AI chatbot in the Messages app. This feature is being rolled out for select devices, with the prerequisite being an Android phone with 6GB of RAM or higher.
