Google Cloud to expand support for AI infrastructure in India, partners with IIT Madras’ AI4Bharat

Google Cloud and Google DeepMind have announced a partnership with IIT Madras to support the launch of Indic Arena. The platform, meant to benchmark and rank AI models on tasks around Indian languages, is run by AI4Bharat, a research lab within IIT Madras.

Google Cloud will be providing cloud credits to help power the platform. 

“At AI4Bharat, our mission is to build AI for India’s specific needs. A critical part of this is having a neutral, standardized benchmark to understand how models are performing across our many languages,” said Mitesh Khapra, associate professor, IIT Madras.

The move is under Google Cloud’s larger plan to expand local hardware capacity for customers in India. Powered by Google’s AI Hypercomputer architecture with the latest Trillium TPUs, the goal is to help more Indian businesses and public sector organisations train and offer Gemini’s most advanced AI models here. 

Google Cloud also said that they plan to roll out the most powerful Gemini AI models in India with full data residency support which will help run batch support for Gemini 2.5 Flash for high-volume, non-real-time AI tasks at lower costs and Document AI which is currently in preview and helps automate document processing on a large scale.