Google Org, the philanthropic wing of Google, has announced a grant of around $ 1 Million for an Indian AI startup “Karya”. 

Karya -AI-enabled  Startup 
Karya is an AI-enabled initiative that employs over 50,000 people from rural India who give their feedback to improve the language abilities of local AI models. Additionally, it is also making an AI chatbot to support digital work. 

Finally, a prototype of the AI model is already active in Ethiopia.

Objective of Karya  
“At Karya, we believe that low-income communities around the world are not only excellent beneficiaries of AI, but they are also excellent builders of AI. We want to use AI to bring earning and learning opportunities to low-income communities across the Global South," said co-founder and CEO of Karya, Manu Chopra.

Tasks performed by rural Employees 
The rural employees of Karya perform tasks from Building Speech Datasets in Indic Languages to annotating videos, texts, and images. While these all can be done on a smartphone, it enables the workers to earn 20 times more than their daily wages. 

Google 
Google through its  head of AI for social good at Google.org, Alex Diaz, said, “We’ve been deeply encouraged to see Karya share this commitment, and are now proud to support its new chapter in nurturing both aptitude and appetite as it brings AI opportunities to underserved communities, and helps ensure the benefits of this revolutionary technology are truly universal.”