India, Feb. 21 -- Google DeepMind this week announced a national partnership for AI with the Indian government, including a collaboration with the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to widen access to its scientific AI models, and a $50,000 grant to IIT-Bombay to build a novel India-Centric Trait Database using its Gemma models on Indic-language health governance documents. For Owen Larter, senior director and head of frontier policy and public affairs at DeepMind, India's ties to the developing world make it uniquely placed to shape how AI benefits are distributed globally - and the responsibility for making that happen, he argues, lies as much with frontier AI companies as with the governments regulating them. Transparency, he...