Supporting a healthier and greener India with our AI

Created by @Aditya Bavadekar on Mon Oct 28 2024

At Google, we’ve long believed in the transformative potential of AI to address some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity. This belief has underpinned our continued efforts and commitment to build AI that benefits everyone. For the past five years, our research teams have worked to bring this commitment to India, and we’ve been deeply encouraged by the enthusiasm and support with which the ecosystem here has partnered with us – adapting our AI to local contexts to help strengthen communities and improve lives. We’ve even highlighted how India can maximize AI’s potential in our ‘An AI Opportunity Agenda for India’ whitepaper. Today, we’re excited to announce new collaborations across health, agriculture and sustainability sectors that will deploy our AI across a range of applications: from helping prevent blindness amongst people with diabetes, to supporting field-level insights that eventually benefit farmers, and even reducing strain on the country’s landfills. - Assisting screening and detection for diabetic retinopathy - Supporting plastic recycling and the circular economy