India, Nov. 12 -- Google Cloud and Google DeepMind have announced a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to support the launch of Indic Arena, an open benchmarking platform for evaluating AI models in India's multilingual context.

According to a statement on Google's official blog, Indic Arena will be operated independently by the AI4Bharat centre at IIT Madras. The platform will allow users across India to anonymously evaluate and rank AI models based on tasks tailored to the country's linguistic diversity.

To aid the initiative, Google said it will provide cloud credits to power the platform and help build a community-driven resource for AI development.

"At AI4Bharat, our mission is to build AI for India...