At Google, we have always championed the promise of AI to dramatically improve the human condition and help solve complex systemic challenges. To our “Lab to Impact: Google on health, science and society,“At today’s India-backed dialogue event – AI Impact Summit 2026, we committed to continuing to bring our comprehensive approach to the country’s AI ambition, from supporting the foundations of that ambition to its impact on the ground.
We announced a series of key collaborations and investments, leveraging our best-in-class AI to strengthen India’s digital public infrastructure, while enabling the research, development and startup ecosystem to solve national challenges and address social needs at scale.
Partnership to lay the foundation for India’s AI ambition
Integrating AI into India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for Healthcare
Today we announced $400,000 funding to support new collaborations that will leverage MedGemma to build India’s health foundation models, with the aim of improving healthcare provider efficiencies and supporting patient outcomes across India. Initially, Ajna Lens will work with experts from India’s flagship medical institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to create models that will support India-specific use cases in dermatology and OPD triage. The models built through this collaboration will contribute to India’s digital public infrastructure and their results will be made available to the ecosystem. Additionally, researchers, AI experts and clinicians from IISc will explore the use of AI models to solve broader clinical use cases.
We also work with India National Health Authority (NHA) deploy our advanced AI to convert millions of fragmented and unstructured medical records, such as doctor’s clinical and progress notes, to the international machine-readable FHIR standard. In addition to helping patients better understand their medical information and reducing the documentation burden on patients and hospitals, this fundamental change will also facilitate much better data-driven policy decisions for India’s public health strategy.
Google is also working with the NHA to integrate more than 400,000 NHA-registered healthcare facilities, including hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic labs, into Google Maps and Search. This will help people easily search and navigate to the nearest health centers with the most up-to-date official information.
Strengthening India’s AI research ecosystem and the government’s vision for Indian leadership in AI
Throughout our journey to India, Google has helped Indian scientists and researchers support the country’s innovation journey. In the last five years alone, Google has supported nearly 1,000 years of doctoral-level research. in over 25 leading research institutes in India, including the premier institutes of the country. OUR global doctoral scholarship program has supported 166 Indian doctoral students throughout its history, with this year’s recipients from India, conducting inspiring fundamental and applied research – from fundamental computer vision models to models that understand and support mental disorders.
We are now taking another important step to support the Indian research ecosystem. Through our philanthropic arm, Google.org, we announce financial support totaling $8 million for four centers of excellence in AI created by the Government of India to support its vision of “Making AI in India and Making AI Work for India”:
- TANUH at IISc Bangalore: Develop scalable AI solutions to support effective treatment of non-communicable diseases
- Airawat Research Foundation, IIT Kanpur: Driving research on how AI can transform urban governance
- Center of Excellence in AI for Education, IIT Madras: Developing solutions that help improve learning and teaching outcomes
- ANNAM.AI at IIT Ropar: Developing data-driven solutions for agriculture and farmer welfare
To continue advancing our commitment to inclusive AI, Google announces a founding contribution of $2 million to establish the new research center for Indian language technologies at IIT Bombay. This hub, established in memory of Professor Pushpak Bhattacharyya, a pioneer in Indian language technologies who trained generations of scientists in linguistic research and was a visiting researcher at Google DeepMind, will aim to ensure that as AI advances globally, it serves India’s linguistic diversity.
Empowering the ecosystem to deploy AI for large-scale and lasting impact
Equipping developers with our open models to power indigenous AI
We have even been encouraged by the enthusiasm with which Indian startups have adopted the cutting-edge Indian capabilities of our foundational AI models. Startups Gnani.AI And CoRover.AI have leveraged Gemma to create voice AI and e-governance focused models for Indian language solutions.
We are provide these startups with funding of $50,000 each to further strengthen their sustained and varied efforts to bring more members of the Indian diaspora into the AI fold. We are also support IIT-Bombay with $50,000 grant as it uses Gemma to process Indian-language health governance and policy documents to create a new “India-centric trait database” that will contain information on diseases, phenotypes and genetic conditions relevant to the Indian population.
Additionally, to further democratize access to our core open models, we have uploaded all 22 Gemma models to AIKosh, the India AI Mission’s open data and model platform. We aim for this measure to help the Indian developer community build indigenous models that take the Make-in-India ambition to new heights.
Empowering Indian changemakers to deploy AI to address India’s pressing challenges
We continue to be inspired by the commitment of Indian innovators and changemakers to find solutions for India, and will continue to support this ecosystem as it builds AI-based solutions at the foundational layer of India’s AI ambition.
Powered by our Open Health Stacka suite of open source tools for next-generation digital health solutions, Indian non-profit organization Khushi baby successfully carried out more than 35 million tuberculosis screenings in Rajasthan this year using an active tuberculosis screening (ACF) module. The integration with Open Health Stack ensured the solution’s compliance with international standards and Indian government requirements. digital health mission And national effort to eliminate tuberculosis.
Third-party research found that AI-powered digital tools could increase the work productivity of India’s more than 1 million ASHA frontline workers, enabling them to make 98 million additional visits to rural patients each year. Research has also estimated that AI-assisted screening tools could save the Indian public around ₹390 billion ($4.7 billion) per year, which equates to around 12% of India’s total healthcare spending.
We are support Wadhwani AI with $2.5 million in funding from Google.org to help pilot HealthVaanian LLM-based conversational AI assistant launched in partnership with the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Women and Child Development to support ASHA and Anganwadi workers. A multimodal and multilingual solution, HealthVaani uses Gemini 2.5-Flash to support translations, response generation and moderation, while the advanced Gemini integration model supports response retrieval.
We are also providing Google.org with $2 million in funding to help Wadhwani AI develop and deploy Garudaa new Indian language model for agriculture that will power the AI-based multilingual AgriVaani smartphone app. Powered by Garuda, AgriVaani will provide Indian farmers and agricultural workers with accurate and contextually relevant advice on crop and livestock management, pest detection and climate-smart practices.
Ensuring the long-term impact of AI is sustainably powered
We have seen the multidimensional and far-reaching impact of AI in solving access challenges and improving the efficiency of ubiquitous and high-impact applications. As more of the ecosystem realizes and unlocks the potential of AI, we expect AI-driven innovations to increase.
Underscoring our strong belief in ensuring that the large-scale impact of AI is powered responsibly and sustainably, we are partnership with ReNew Energy to support a new 150 megawatt (MW) solar project in Rajasthan, India. As part of a long-term agreement, we will receive Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) and attribute them to emissions in our value chain. At the same time, we will continue to work with leading suppliers to increase their adoption of clean energy. This initiative aims to reduce the energy footprint of our supply chain, while demonstrating a clear path for organizations to credibly address emissions across the AI value chain.
This partnership builds on our previous collaborations with Adani Group and Clean Max to add 186 MW of wind and solar power to India’s grid and contribute to India’s 2030 target of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based electricity.
At Google, we don’t limit ourselves to theoretical advances: we engineer real-world transformation. And we have seen this transformation happening in India, bringing the country to the brink of a monumental leap thanks to AI. As we mobilize our resources to help India harness this moment, we invite its institutions and innovators to join us, transforming the promise of technology into a tangible, systemic and equitable reality for India and the world.