At Google I/O Connect India 2025, India’s startup ecosystem took the spotlight, showing how local innovators are building world-class products using Google’s latest AI tools—Gemini, Gemma, Veo, Imagen, and Lyria.

- Sarvam launched Sarvam-Translate using Gemma 3, offering high-quality translation across 22 Indian languages, and powering its multilingual chat platform Samvaad.
- CoRover uses Gemini to power BharatGPT, serving over 1 billion users across 25,000+ enterprises with multilingual chatbot solutions.
- Glance combines AI-powered real-time commerce with visual content across smartphones and connected TVs using Vertex AI.
- Entri embedded Gemini into an AI Teacher Assistant and Interview Coach, improving outcomes for 15M+ learners in vernacular languages.
- Invideo simplifies video creation with just text prompts, using Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Google’s full AI stack.
- Nykaa enables seamless on-device visual search using Gemini, making fashion discovery smarter and more private.
- Dashverse launched Dashtoon Studio and Frameo, using Veo 3 to create AI-powered comics and a 90-minute mythological film.
- Toonsutra blends Lyria 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro to create music, dialogues, and animation for immersive vernacular webcomics.
Google also announced a new cohort of 20 startups for the Google for Startups Accelerator Apps program, along with an expanded MeitY partnership to provide early-stage AI training through roadshows and buildathons.