Google Just Promised India Underwater Internet Cables to Supercharge AI, and It Could Change Everything

While one university was busy getting embarrassed at India's AI Impact Summit (see our other story), Google CEO Sundar Pichai was making some genuinely massive announcements.

Pichai unveiled the "India-America Connect Initiative," which will build brand new underwater cable routes between the two countries specifically designed to boost AI connectivity. Think of these cables as giant internet highways running along the ocean floor, carrying enormous amounts of data between continents.

Why does this matter? Because AI needs incredible amounts of computing power and data transfer. Right now, a lot of that infrastructure is concentrated in the US and Europe. These new cables would give India a much faster, more direct connection to AI resources.

But that was not even the biggest announcement. Pichai also revealed a partnership between India's central government and Google DeepMind, one of the most advanced AI research labs on the planet. DeepMind is the team behind breakthroughs like AlphaFold, which figured out how proteins fold (a problem scientists struggled with for 50 years).

Meanwhile, an Indian consortium called BharatGen, led by IIT Bombay, unveiled a new 17-billion parameter AI model at the same summit. For context, the bigger the parameter count, the more capable and complex an AI model can be.

India is clearly making a big bet on becoming an AI powerhouse, and Google just handed them a serious boost. As reported by Moneycontrol.

Source: Moneycontrol