India, Feb. 20 -- At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a laboratory breakthrough but a geopolitical and developmental force, Google DeepMind is recalibrating how it works with governments. This week, they announced its National Partnerships for AI with the Indian government, which includes working with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to make its scientific AI models more accessible, as well as supporting IIT-Bombay with a grant of $50,000 to use Gemma to process Indic language health governance and policy documents to build a novel 'India-Centric Trait Database'.

For Owen Larter, who is senior director and head of frontier policy and public affairs at Google DeepMind, this is not merely an expansion...