Introducing our country partnerships for AI and collaboration in India
We believe that artificial intelligence will be the most revolutionary technology in human history and that it should be implemented in a way that benefits all of humanity. This requires deep, strategic collaboration between pioneering AI labs, governments, academia and civil society.
To realize the full potential of AI, Google DeepMind is working with governments through the National Partnerships for AI initiative to expand access to our pioneering AI capabilities, helping to ensure they are deployed to serve citizens and meet national priorities for science, education, resilience and public services.
Building on our work with the US and UK governments, we are establishing up-to-date partnerships with Indian government bodies and local institutions. As part of the global AI transformation, India is showing exceptional leadership in applying the technology to solve the biggest challenges. But India is going even further by playing a key international role, convening this week the fourth global summit on artificial intelligence, bringing together governments, companies and civil society. International dialogue and cooperation will have a positive impact and create the global framework required to prepare society for an AI future.
India Partnership to Expand Access to Artificial Intelligence
Our partnerships aim to accelerate the pace of progress across India. Here are some of the ways we are working together to unlock up-to-date opportunities in science and education.
Progressive scientific discoveries
Google DeepMind, Google Research and Google.org are working with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to facilitate the deployment of artificial intelligence models to advance science. We provide access to our pioneering AI models for science, support hackathons and community competitions, and provide training and mentoring for students, researchers and early career professionals.
Scientists and engineers in India will be able to benefit from our AI tools, including:
- AlphaGenome: an artificial intelligence model that will lend a hand scientists better understand how mutations in human DNA sequences affect a wide range of gene functions
- AI co-scientist: A multi-agent artificial intelligence system that acts as a virtual scientific collaborator
- Earth’s artificial intelligence: A collection of models built on Gemini’s advanced reasoning that lend a hand businesses, nonprofits, and cities with everything from environmental monitoring to disaster response
Scientists around the world are already using AlphaFold – our artificial intelligence system that can accurately predict the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more – to accelerate discovery. India is the fourth largest user of AlphaFold in the world, with over 180,000 researchers currently using it. We hope that Indian scientists will benefit even more from the exploit of AlphaGenome and the other artificial intelligence systems we are currently making available.
We are also working to support artificial intelligence in science at a global level. That’s why we announced $30 million today at the India Summit The Google.org Impact Challenge: Artificial Intelligence for Sciencean open call to researchers, non-profits and social enterprises from India and around the world who are using artificial intelligence to achieve scientific breakthroughs. Selected winners will also have the opportunity to participate in the Google.org accelerator, receiving engineering support, expert mentorship and infrastructure from Google DeepMind and Google Research to turn their concepts into scalable discoveries.
Giving India’s students and teachers an AI-powered future
Our recent survey from Ipsos showed that science is the main motivation for using artificial intelligence around the world. This is especially true in India, which currently leads the world in everyday exploit of Gemini by students. We see that AI can foster deep understanding and critical thinking when built with learning in mind and deployed as a supportive partner for educators.
On Municipal Montessori School in Lucknow, teachers are integrating Guided learning for mathematics classes for students of grades 8–9 and I received a positive response. Early analysis of a randomized controlled trial by great artificial intelligence shows that students are willing to learn more deeply, not just quick answers: in almost three out of four Gemini conversations, students were looking to develop their understanding rather than quick answers or shortcuts.
That’s why we’re expanding our efforts with additional partners to raise the learning potential of more Indian students and teachers:
- Powering innovation centers with GenAI assistants: Together with Atal Tinkering Labs, which serves over 10,000 Indian schools and 11 million students, we will lend a hand incorporate robotics and coding into local curricula, thoughtfully integrate Gemini into teachers’ work, and build a securely secured AI assistant for students based on national curriculum standards that can act as an educational partner. Educators can access real-time guidance to lend a hand students repair a missing part of the robot using readily available materials or repair a broken circuit by simply pointing the camera at it or asking Gemini a question in the chat.
- Transforming textbooks into interactive digital journeys: In a first-of-its-kind partnership with PM Publishers Pvt. Ltd., a publisher of primary and secondary school textbooks in India, Gemini will be used to transform two million stagnant textbooks into interactive AI-powered journeys covering over 250 titles and 2,000 schools. Each book contains a QR code that students can scan to access a custom gem (specialized versions of the Gemini AI model) that acts as a subject matter expert, providing summaries and answers about the book’s content.
- In the service of India’s linguistic diversity: Artificial intelligence has incredible potential to have a positive impact on education if built in close collaboration with experts and rooted in local language and culture. Based on the latest Google.org solutions Founding contribution of $2 million to establish a up-to-date Indian language technology research center at IIT Bombay, we will lend a hand incorporate India’s linguistic diversity into artificial intelligence as it grows globally.
These efforts build on the global success of existing AI literacy programs such as Experience artificial intelligencea joint partnership developed by Google DeepMind with the Raspberry Pi Foundation that has already reached 300,000 students and 8,000 teachers in India.
AI solutions for Indian agriculture and energy sector
Our up-to-date science and education partnerships build on our ongoing collaboration with local Indian organizations to address global challenges in agriculture and energy security. Working with Indian startups, institutions such as the Council for Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Indian and central government entities exploit APIs our freely available agricultural AI models to raise agricultural resilience, crop productivity and farmer incomes. TerraStack also uses Google artificial intelligence to combine satellite, crop and weather data for hyperlocal information that helps farmers make better farming decisions.
We also recently announced a growing partnership with Open Climate Fix to integrate our WeatherNext AI models in the operation of the Indian power grid. Our goal is to significantly improve the accuracy of India’s renewable energy forecasts, lend a hand grid operators manage variability and support the country’s ambitious immaculate energy goals. When we tested WeatherNext’s integration with OCF’s wind generation forecast, the results showed an improvement in forecast accuracy of up to 8%.
This partnership comes at a time when India is rapidly expanding its renewable capacity, becoming the world’s third-largest solar power producer in 2023, with an ambitious goal of installing 500 GW of renewable capacity by 2030. Collaborating on energy solutions has never been more vital – we remain committed to working with experts in India to advance these efforts together and prepare for the future.
Preparing for the future together
AI’s global impact is inevitable, but its success is not. To turn potential into prosperity, we are committed to deep, local collaboration with Indian government bodies and institutions to ensure that AI delivers real results across the subcontinent and the world.