India, Dec. 16 -- From financing India's AI research ecosystem to providing grants to emerging AI startups, Google announced a slew of initiatives to bolster the Indian AI ecosystem today. The tech giant committed $8 Mn to support four of the central government's AI Centres of Excellence (CoE), as well as commitments to funding India-based AI startups and AI in healthcare.

Google will provide the funding support to the following CoEs:

TANUH at IISc Bangalore: AI for treatment of non-communicable diseases

Airawat Research Foundation at IIT Kanpur: AI in governance

AI Centre of Excellence for Education, IIT Madras: AI for education and teaching

ANNAM.AI at IIT Ropar: AI for agriculture and farmer welfare

The funds would be used to enh...