Google announces AI investments and partnerships at India summit

Google announced a set of investments and partnerships at the AI Impact Summit in India.

• Main announcement: Google announced a $15 billion investment to establish foundational AI infrastructure in India and launched the America-India Connect initiative to deliver new strategic fiber-optic routes improving connectivity between the U.S., India and multiple Southern Hemisphere locations; Google also committed two $30 million Google.org impact challenges (AI for Government and AI for Science).
• Additional details and partnerships: Google DeepMind is establishing partnerships with Indian government bodies and local institutions (part of DeepMind’s National Partnerships for AI) to provide access to frontier AI for Science models and power innovation hubs; Google launched the Google Center for Climate Technology in collaboration with the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, and announced skilling and product updates including an AI Professional Certificate (partnering with Wadhwani AI in India), support for iGOT Karmayogi (serving over 20 million public servants across 800+ districts), and product safeguards such as SynthID used over 20 million times.