Google has announced to make a big investment in the field of AI in India in the next few years. Sundar Pichai, CEO of American tech company Google, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, said that their company will invest about $15 billion (Rs 1,360 billion) in India during the next five years. Regarding AI Impact Summit, Sundar Pichai posted on X that we believe that India is going to make great progress in the field of AI and we want to be a partner in it.
Google will provide cloud service
Along with this, he also announced a partnership to provide cloud infrastructure platform to more than two crore government employees in 800 districts. To promote research, Google announced ‘AI for Science Impact Challenge’ worth $30 million. This initiative will support AI research leading to next generation scientific discoveries.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that such a change is taking place in India that the next global AI giant can emerge from here. He said such a change is taking place in India due to which the next global AI giant can emerge from here. This investment by Google will be to create the country’s first big AI hub. The biggest part of this project is the Mega AI Data Center to be built in Visakhapatnam.
At the AI ​​impact summit our message is clear: we believe India is going to have an extraordinary trajectory with AI, and we want to be a partner.
To help, we have launched new America-India Connect subsea cable routes building on our $15B investment in India’s infrastructure,… pic.twitter.com/pb0xH9XbgX
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 18, 2026
Undersea cable will be laid till America
Google CEO inaugurates ‘India-America Connect Initiative’. This is a series of sea cable routes being laid to increase AI connectivity between America and India. He said that India’s diversity and strong digital public infrastructure makes it a powerful place for innovation.
Apart from this, in collaboration with ‘Atal Tinkering Labs’, 1.1 crore students of 10,000 schools will be taught generative AI, robotics and coding. ‘Google AI Professional Certificate Program’ launched in Hindi and English for students and early career professionals.
Google will make big investment in India
Sundar Pichai posted on X and said, ‘We have launched the new US-India Connect subsea cable route based on our $15 billion investment in India’s infrastructure, which will accelerate AI connectivity between India and the US. This also includes an AI hub in Visakhapatnam. We are also launching a new AI certificate. Apart from this, Google is partnering with DeepMind to promote new research in the field of science and education, and is also providing live speech-to-speech translation and other services for more than 70 languages.
