Google for India 2024: New AI, Fee and Well being Options Unveiled

Google introduced a number of new options for its apps and providers at its Google for India 2024 occasion on Thursday. The agency introduced enhancements to Google Pay with help for private and gold loans, and showcased new well being associated options developed in partnership with the well being sector. New options to detect and defend customers from scams have been additionally unveiled by the corporate. Google additionally introduced that it was rolling out help for Gemini Stay and its AI search overviews in regional languages.

At its annual Google for India occasion in Delhi, the corporate introduced enhancements to the search expertise, together with the power to let clients attain companies instantly by way of WhatsApp. Beforehand, listings might embrace a telephone quantity that might be tapped as a way to place a name. Google Maps has additionally been up to date with help for real-time alerts for flooding and fog, in response to the search big.

The corporate is bringing help for private loans and gold loans on Google Pay, it is Unified Funds Interface (UPI) app. It additionally introduced new partnerships with Aditya Birla Capital Finance for private loans and Muthoot Finance for gold loans. With Google’s revised limits, clients can now entry private loans price as much as Rs. 5 lakh and gold loans price Rs. 50 lakh.

Google’s AI instruments have enabled free most cancers and tuberculosis screenings in India
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As a part of its DigiKavach initiative, Google says that it saved customers from scams price Rs. 13,000 crore and displayed over 41 million warnings to customers in 2023. Over 170 million fraudulent opinions have been mechanically detected and eliminated on Google Maps, in response to the corporate. Google says Android customers in India will quickly be protected with a brand new enhanced fraud safety characteristic that stop customers from sideloading malicious apps that request entry to crucial permissions.

Google additionally showcased new well being options built-in by the corporate’s companions, resembling Apollo Hospitals, which is utilizing deep-learning fashions from the corporate to enhance diagnostic providers. The corporate’s AI instruments are additionally enabling help for tuberculosis and most cancers screening in a number of areas — for gratis to sufferers. 

Google additionally says it’s rolling out help for Gemini Stay in 9 languages together with Hindi, permitting customers to speak to the AI assistant with real-time responses. AI overviews, one other characteristic that was beforehand obtainable in Hindi and English, will quickly be obtainable in 4 extra regional languages — Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.

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