Google Boosts India's AI: Funds Healthcare, Agriculture, Indic Languages

• Google commits $8 million to India’s AI Centres of Excellence for health, agriculture, education, and sustainable cities.
• $400,000 allocated to develop India’s health foundation model, leveraging MedGemma for healthcare efficiency.
• Supports Gnani.AI, CoRover.ai, and BharatGen with $50,000 grants each for Indic language AI solutions.
• Wadhwani AI receives $4.5 million for multilingual, AI-powered health and agriculture applications.
• Google DeepMind funds CoRover.ai (BharatGPT creator) to build e-governance language models using Gemma, and establishes an Indic Language Technologies Research Hub at IIT Bombay with a $2 million contribution.

Why It Matters: Google invests significantly in India's AI ecosystem, focusing on health, agriculture, and Indic language models.