Google Announces AI Collaborations For Healthcare, Sustainability, and Agriculture in India [Video]

Google has unveiled new AI focussed partnerships in India to boost healthcare, sustainability, and agriculture. 

The tech giant’s latest collaborations include a project with Forus Health and AuroLab to expand diabetic retinopathy screenings, a partnership with Saahas Zero Waste to support India’s circular economy, and the release of its Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) API to developers.

These announcements follow the 10th edition of Google for India event, emphasising the company’s commitment to making AI impactful across the country.

“At Google, we’re not just building AI but shaping a future where AI benefits everyone,” said Dr. Manish Gupta, research director of Google DeepMind, speaking at the roundtable at Google’s Research lab in Bangalore. He highlighted Google’s focus on areas such as language understanding, healthcare, and sustainability to address India’s challenges, emphasising how AI is poised to solve some of society’s biggest issues.

For healthcare, Google has licensed its diabetic retinopathy AI model to healthcare providers and health-tech partners Forus Health and …