Introducing our National Partnerships for AI and collaboration in India
We imagine AI will probably be probably the most transformative technology in human history and that it must be deployed in ways in which profit all of humanity. This requires deep, strategic collaboration between frontier AI labs, governments, academia, and civil society.
To completely realise AI’s potential, Google DeepMind is working with governments through our National Partnerships for AI initiative to broaden access to our frontier AI capabilities, helping ensure they’re deployed to serve residents and meet national priorities in science, education, resilience, and public services.
Constructing on our collaborations with the US and UK governments, we’re establishing a brand new partnership with Indian government bodies and native institutions. In the worldwide AI transformation, India is showing exceptional leadership in applying the technology to tackle its own biggest challenges. But India goes even further, playing a critical international role by convening this week the fourth global AI summit of governments, firms and civil society. International dialogue and collaboration will guide positive impacts and create the worldwide frameworks required to arrange society for a future with AI.
Partnership in India to broaden AI access
Our partnerships are designed to speed up the pace of progress across India. Listed below are a couple of ways we’re working together to unlock latest possibilities in science and education.
Advancing scientific breakthroughs
Google DeepMind, Google Research and Google.org are partnering with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to facilitate the adoption of AI models to advance science. We’re providing access to our frontier AI for Science models, supporting hackathons and community contests, and enabling training and mentorship to students, researchers, and people within the early stages of their careers.
Researchers and engineers in India will have the opportunity to make use of our AI tools, including:
- AlphaGenome: An AI model to assist scientists higher understand how mutations in human DNA sequences impact a wide selection of gene functions
- AI Co-scientist: A multi-agent AI system that acts as a virtual scientific collaborator
- Earth AI: A group of models built on Gemini’s advanced reasoning which are helping enterprises, nonprofits, and cities with all the pieces from environmental monitoring to disaster response
Scientists around the globe are already using AlphaFold – our AI system able to accurately predicting the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more – to speed up discoveries. India stands because the fourth largest adopter of AlphaFold globally, with over 180,000 researchers using it today. We hope to see Indian scientists profit much more from using AlphaGenome and the opposite AI systems we are actually providing.
We’re also working to support AI for science at a world level. Because of this, today on the India Summit, we announced the $30 million Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science, an open call for researchers, nonprofits, and social enterprises in India, and around the globe, using AI to attain scientific breakthroughs. Chosen awardees will even have the chance to take part in a Google.org Accelerator, receiving engineering support, expert mentorship, and infrastructure from Google DeepMind and Google Research to show their concepts into scalable discoveries.
Empowering India’s Students and Teachers with an AI-powered Future
Our recent survey with Ipsos has shown that learning is the highest motivation for using AI globally. This is very true in India, which now leads the world in each day Gemini usage by students. We’re seeing AI can drive profound comprehension and significant considering when it’s purpose-built for learning and implemented as a supportive partner to educators.
At City Montessori School in Lucknow, teachers are integrating Guided Learning into math classes for Grade 8-9 students and seeing a positive response. An early evaluation of a randomized control study conducted by Fab AI shows that students are demonstrating a desire for deeper learning, not only quick answers: in almost three out of each 4 conversations on Gemini, students sought to develop their understanding slightly than a fast answer or shortcut.
That’s why we’re expanding efforts with additional partners to supercharge the potential of learning for more Indian students and teachers:
- Powering innovation hubs with GenAI assistants: Along with Atal Tinkering Labs, which serves greater than 10,000 Indian schools and 11 million students, we’ll help incorporate robotics and coding into local curricula, integrate Gemini thoughtfully into teacher workflows, and construct a safely guardrailed AI assistant for college kids grounded in national curriculum standards that may act as an academic partner. Teachers can access real-time suggestions to assist students fix a robot missing an element with available materials or mend a broken circuit design by simply pointing a camera to it or asking Gemini in chat.
- Transforming textbooks into interactive digital journeys: In a first-of-its-kind partnership with PM Publishers Pvt. Ltd., a K-12 textbook publisher in India, Gemini will probably be used to rework two million static textbooks into AI-powered interactive journeys across greater than 250 titles and a pair of,000 schools. Each book encompasses a QR code that will be scanned by students to access a custom Gem (specialized versions of the Gemini AI model), that acts as an authority assistant on the topic, providing summaries and responses on the contents of the respective book.
- Serving India’s linguistic diversity: There may be incredible potential for AI to make a positive impact on education when in-built close partnership with experts and grounded in local language and culture. Constructing on Google.org’s recent $2 million founding contribution to ascertain the brand new Indic Language Technologies Research Hub at IIT Bombay, we’ll help incorporate India’s linguistic diversity into AI because it advances globally.
These efforts construct on the worldwide success of existing AI literacy programs like Experience AI, a joint partnership developed by Google DeepMind with Raspberry Pi Foundation, which has already reached as much as 300,000 students and eight,000 teachers in India.
AI solutions for India’s agriculture and energy sectors
Our latest partnerships in science and education construct on our ongoing collaboration with local Indian organizations to tackle global challenges in agriculture and energy security. Working with Indian startups, institutions like Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), and Indian state and central government entities are using the APIs of our freely available Agri AI models to boost agricultural resilience, crop productivity and farmer incomes. TerraStack can also be using Google AI to mix satellite, crop, and weather data, into hyper-local insights that help farmers make higher agricultural decisions.
We also recently announced a growing collaboration with Open Climate Fix to integrate our WeatherNext AI models into India’s electricity grid operations. We’re aiming to significantly improve the accuracy of renewable energy forecasts in India, help grid operators manage volatility, and support the country’s ambitious clean energy targets. After we tested the mixing of WeatherNext into OCF’s wind generation forecast, results showed as much as 8% accuracy improvement in forecast performance.
This partnership comes as India rapidly scales its renewable capability, becoming the third largest generator of solar energy globally in 2023, with an ambitious goal of putting in 500 GW of renewable capability by 2030. Working together on energy solutions has never been more essential – we remain committed to working with experts in India to progress this effort together to arrange for the long run.
Preparing for the long run together
AI’s global impact is inevitable, but its success is just not. To show potential into prosperity, we’re committing to deep, local collaboration with India’s government bodies and institutions to make sure AI delivers tangible results across the subcontinent–and the world.
