New Initiatives from Google Cloud to Power AI startups in Bengaluru

Google Cloud launched new initiatives in Bengaluru to fund, train and scale startups to support innovation and effectively scale through strategic partnerships.

Google held an AI Startups Summit in Bengaluru on Thursday, had announced several initiatives to enhance early-stage AI startups. The Google Emerging ISV Partner Springboard, a 12 – week program that aims at building and scaling AI based solutions using Google Cloud is at the core of these initiatives.

This program grants participants access to resources at Google Cloud which include 200,000 worth of credits from Google for Startups Cloud Program and an extra 350,000 dollars for AI related services. These credits are meant to cater for the increased processing power demanded by AI on the startup.

Google enhances its Cloud ecosystem through programs like Advanced, partnering with Y Combinator and 500 Startups, utilizing technologies like NVIDIA H100 GPU and Google Cloud TPU. Additionally, it offers Startup School: GenAI, a free four-week course for beginners on generational AI in business.

Senior Google DeepMind’s Manish Gupta, has said that these programs demonstrate the power of Google Cloud to support AI startups to create and grow businesses. The same perspective was shared by Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud as she described the firm’s purpose of bringing the next wave of business transformation across the world.

At the summit, Google also unveiled a new alliance with DeliverHealth that is set to optimize healthcare reporting by means of the Google Cloud’s Gemini 1.5 Pro AIs for clinical practitioners and patient’s needs.

This further cements Google Cloud’s strategic position in artificial intelligence, while also signaling its increasing confidence in the country’s technology industry in India.