At the ‘I/O Connect Bengaluru’ event in India, Google announced a host of new developer-focus updates also including a new integration between Project IDX and Android Studio to make developers build their apps using a web browser on any device. Also, it introduced Firebase AI Monitoring, a new dashboard with new generative AI performance, and Project Oscar, an AI agent for maintaining open-source software projects.
Google Introduces New Feature For AI Developers
A blog posted by Google, featuring India’s developer relations lead Karthik Padmanabhan has pointed out that India’s community of 4 million developers forefront in AI development has now applied the technology to solve a wide range of problems, mostly focused on language, and Google’s intended to provide them with best resources they need to aid in those efforts.
Moreover, the Google DeepMind India team also revealed a new initiative working towards a new project named ‘Project Vaani’ which is a collaboration made with the Indian Institute of Science and aims to capture the diversity of hundreds of spoken languages of the country.
This project led to create ‘IndicGenBench’ a benchmark that will be used by the developers to evaluate the capabilities of large language models trained on indic languages.
Additionally, it also opens ‘Composition of Language Models’ their framework will be used by the developers who want to combine specialized LLMs with Google Gemma models.
The ‘Project IDX’ is an online integrated development environment based on Visual Studio Code, and reportedly the company will launch an early preview of Android Studio on this Project IDX and can run in any browser providing quick access to the developers and enabling them to perform coding, building, and testing native Android applications on any device and in any location.
Therefore, Google’s mobile and web application development platform ‘Firebase’ has improved to provide support for the programming language in alpha test mode. The ‘Firebase AI Monitoring’ dashboard, enables developers to monitor their LLM’s performance with the supported features in their behavior and any inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
On the other hand, the ‘Project Oscar’ is designed to support open-source project maintenance and attracts thousands of contributors who publish hundreds of new commits daily.
It is a reference for an AI Agent that will keep track of all these updates and is initially targeted at Go, which currently has more than 2,000 contributors and over 9,3000 commits.
The software development kit for creating applications named ‘Flutter’ is the user interface and it also gets a dose of generative AI.
However, the new AI-generated UI feature has come up with the ability to compose and personalize UI elements that are based on natural language inputs and are going to launch in early access.
Meanwhile, Padmanabhan has announced their partnership with the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to support 10,000 Indian generative AI startups. Additionally, Google will also host an annual nationwide hackathon contest to identify India’s next generation of AI innovators.