Google Cloud unveiled a series of initiatives to drive growth for early-stage AI startups in India at its AI Startups Summit in Bengaluru on November 7. The new initiatives aim to equip such startups with all the necessary resources and guidance to empower them to scale and innovate.
Selected founders under the program shall get $200,000 Google Cloud credits. Secondly, credits of $350,000 will specifically be devoted to AI-first startups. With these credits, such startups would have an opportunity to benefit from Google Cloud infrastructure with which to hasten and deliver AI solutions faster and at an accelerated pace.
The firm further unveiled another spectacular news by unveiling a partnership with a high-profile Y Combinator incubator of popular startup incubators. Through this partnership, startups selected for the Y Combinator Summer 2024 cohort that focused on AI will gain access to high-performance NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Google Cloud’s tensor processing units. More than that, the partnership will offer such startups cloud credits and mentorship, ensuring resources and support in terms of refinement and bringing the innovation to market. The company also has partnered with many accelerators and incubators, including 500, StartX, and Berkeley Skydeck, to provide technical workshops and hands-on guidance to foster the young AI ecosystem in India.
Also at the summit, it showcased its Emerging ISV Partner Springboard program. The 12-week program fully supports early-stage AI startups in establishing their key go-to-market assets, productizing, and ensuring that technical architecture is optimized. It provides the training of best practices through workshops that help startups build strong foundations as they scale.
These initiatives reflect Google’s commitment to fostering innovation within India’s AI startup landscape. “These initiatives demonstrate our dedication toward providing critical support and resources towards early-stage founders in scaling up successful AI-powered businesses,” says Manish Gupta, Senior Director of Research at Google DeepMind. “Google is very committed to empowering AI startups to be the drivers of innovation and growth.”.
The event also announced Google Cloud’s new partnership with health tech company DeliverHealth. Through the partnership, Google Cloud will advance clinical documentation further, utilizing its Gemini 1.5 Pro multimodal AI models that support voice-based clinical documentation. This directly means that clinicians can document patient information by speaking about things such as lab summaries and inpatient notes more efficiently.
Our collaboration with DeliverHealth reflects our shared commitment towards innovation through the transformative potential of GenAI by automating mundane tasks and improving efficiency and accuracy,” said Bikram Singh Bedi, Vice President, and Country Managing Director of Google Cloud India, explaining that this partnership with DeliverHealth aims to simplify the process of medical documentation while enhancing clinical workflows.
