New Delhi/IBNS: At India AI Impact Summit, Google has announced the America-India Connect initiative which will deliver new strategic fiber-optic routes to increase the reach, reliability and resilience of digital connectivity between the U.S., India and multiple locations across the Southern Hemisphere.
Google has recently announced $15 billion investment to establish foundational AI infrastructure in India, and have been building subsea cables in the Pacific, Africa and around the world.
Speaking on the investment, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, "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, including a full-stack AI Hub in Vizag.
"We're also rolling out a new AI Certificate, a @GoogleDeepMind partnership to unlock discoveries in science & education, live speech-to-speech translation for 70+ languages and more."
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.
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) February 18, 2026
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What are the initiatives?
A $30 million Google.org Global AI for Government Innovation Impact Challenge to support partnerships that transform public services using AI — from everyday essential services to complex societal challenges.
A $30 million Google.org AI for Science Impact Challenge to support researchers globally who are using AI to drive scientific breakthroughs.
Google DeepMind establishes a new partnership with Indian government bodies and local institutions to unlock new discoveries in science and education. This includes providing access to its frontier AI for Science models and powering innovation hubs with GenAI assistants, among other projects. This forms part of Google DeepMind’s broader National Partnerships for AI initiative — working with governments to broaden access to frontier AI capabilities for national priorities.
The Google Center for Climate Technology in collaboration with the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, to accelerate research and adoption of scalable AI-powered climate solutions.
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