New Delhi, May 15 -- Much of Google's success or failure in generative artificial intelligence (AI) will hinge on how its India market fares in the immediate future. This was a common refrain among developers, consultants and analysts alike, even as Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent two hours on Tuesday convincing the world that the search giant was not passe in the race for generative GenAI supremacy.

Why? Well, for one, Google is using its dominant market share in mobile operating systems (Android), in browsers (Chrome), and in email agents (Gmail) to place AI applications based on its Gemini large language model (LLM) in front of all its customers. On Android, it's doing this with live transcriptions, summaries, photo and video editing, ...