‘AI must understand cultural context’: DeepMind’s Manish Gupta on India-first AI

Google DeepMind’s Senior Director, Manish Gupta, speaks to Deepak Ajwani, Editor, The Economic Times Digital, on the sidelines of Mumbai Tech Week about India’s fast-growing AI ecosystem, the role of cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru, and why India should not see AI only through the Silicon Valley lens. Gupta explains how AI could transform businesses and daily life in India, especially through language and voice-led solutions. He also discusses Project Vaani, the challenge of building datasets for Indian languages, the need for better cross-language transfer, and the next step for multimodal AI that combines voice, visuals, and text. The conversation also examines why culturally rooted AI responses matter and why AI models for India cannot simply generate answers in English and then translate them into local languages.#googledeepmind #artificialintelligence #indiaai #mumbaitechweek #voiceai #projectvaani #indianlanguages

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