Google commits $8 million to India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem

Key facts

• Google on Tuesday announced fresh collaborations and funding commitments worth $8 million to strengthen India’s artificial intelligence ecosystem.
• Research funding will go to TANUH at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru for non-communicable disease treatment.
• The Airawat Research Foundation at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will receive funding for AI-driven urban governance.
• Google is working with the National Health Authority (NHA) to use AI to convert millions of unstructured medical records into the international FHIR standard.
• Google announced a $2 million founding contribution to set up an Indic Language Technologies Research Hub at IIT Bombay.
• Google said it is partnering with ReNew Energy on a 150 MW solar project in Rajasthan, extending its push to power AI growth with clean energy and support India’s non-fossil fuel goals.
• The company said it would provide $400,000 to support collaborations using its MedGemma models to build India-specific health foundation models.
• Google announced separate Google.org funding of $2 million to develop Garuda, an AI language model for agriculture.