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’s specific needs. A critical part of this is having a neutral, standardized benchmark to understand how models perform across our many languages. Indic Arena will be that platform,” said Mitesh Khapra, Associate Professor at IIT Madras. “We are delighted to have Google Cloud’s support to provide the compute power to bring this public-facing project to life for the Indian AI community.”

Google added that it is encouraging developers, researchers, and organizations in India to explore the Indic Arena platform and contribute to creating a more inclusive AI ecosystem.

“We invite the entire Indian ecosystem—from startups and universities to government bodies and enterprises—to use this dedicated capacity for Gemini in Vertex AI and our sovereign-ready infrastructure to build the next generation of AI, built by Indians, for Indians,” the company said.