Google has generated Rs 4 lakh crore in app income in India, and considerably contributed in direction of developer jobs within the nation in 2024, the tech large mentioned on Wednesday.
Citing knowledge from Public First, an economics, coverage, and opinion analysis consultancy, the tech large lauded Indian builders and startups shaping AI use with Google.
“Primarily based on third-party evaluations, the Google Play and Android ecosystem generated Rs 4 lakh crore in income for app publishers and the broader economic system in India in 2024,” Google mentioned in a weblog submit.
The ecosystem led to the creation of 35 lakh direct, oblique, and spillover jobs within the nation, the tech large mentioned.
“The Indian ecosystem contains the second largest variety of energetic builders on Google Play internationally, contributing over 10 lakh developer jobs in 2024,” it added.
The ecosystem performed an necessary function in shaping the affect and inclusiveness of India’s digital economic system.
“Indian builders are actually writing the following chapter of India’ssuccess story, utilizing AI capabilities to construct real-world purposes which are reaching thousands and thousands of companies and other people throughout India and the world,” mentioned Dr. Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind.
“We’re giving India the very best instruments, essentially the most open platforms, and the strongest assist to construct boldly for the world, fostering a profound ‘AI Productiveness Leap’ throughout companies and startups,” added Preeti Lobana, Nation Supervisor, Google India.
To assist the Indian developer and startup ecosystem additional, the tech large, on the Google I/O Join India 2025 held in Bengaluru, introduced its high-performance pondering mannequin Gemini 2.5 Flash, new Agentic AI instruments in Firebase Studio, a brand new coaching programme with one of many world’s main gaming engine platforms — Unity.
It talked about collaborations with three India AI Mission startups — Sarvam, Soket AI, and Gnani — in constructing modern options towards the event of the nation’s Make-in-India AI fashions.
The tech large additionally introduced measures increasing the provision of contemporary and correct data in Google Maps, comprising over 250 million locations worldwide, enabling builders to construct higher generative AI options.
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