{"id":105038,"date":"2026-07-14T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/105038\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:08","slug":"google-launches-new-ai-tools-education-programs-for-indias-developers-and-startups-at-i-o-connect-india-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/105038\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches new AI tools, education programs for India’s developers and startups at I\/O Connect India 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GoogleGoogle launched new initiatives for Indian developers and enterprises embracing AI. These efforts focus on educational tools and ecosystem partnerships for AI safety. The company also supports Indian companies with localization requirements for global AI models. Google Play and Android generated significant revenue for Indian app publishers in 2025. These advancements aim to secure India’s AI innovation on locally relevant foundations. Google<\/a> has announced new initiatives to help India\u2019s developers, startups and enterprises embrace frontier and agentic AI to drive the next wave of innovation. These include the launch of AI-powered educational tools and curriculum, ecosystem partnerships to strengthen safety in the agentic era, and expansions that support Indian companies\u2019 compliance with localization requirements as they build with global AI models. At the Google I\/O Connect India 2026, the company also highlighted that, based on third-party evaluations, the Google Play and Android ecosystem generated Rs 5.3 lakh crore (USD 6 billion) in revenue for app publishers and the wider economy in India in 2025, growing by 28% from 2024. D.K. Shivakumar, Chief Minister, Government of Karnataka, said: \u201cFor millions of Indians, their very first experience of the internet came through Google. Through search, through Android, through YouTube, through Maps, through Chrome, and now through Google Pay. Google transformed how students learn, how business grows, how government delivers services, how billions of people access knowledge every single day. That is an extraordinary contribution all of you have made. Together, let us make Karnataka one of the largest laboratories for Google. To every developer here, build boldly. To every entrepreneur, dream big. For every researcher, keep innovating. For every student, never stop learning. Karnataka has always helped to shape the future of technology. Together, let us build a future that is innovative, inclusive, and trusted.\u201d Preeti Lobana, Country Manager, Google India, said: \u201cIndia’s builders are already deploying AI faster than almost anywhere else. As we drive the shift into the agentic era, where AI moves from answering queries to securely executing tasks, our focus is on providing the underlying infrastructure and guardrails the ecosystem needs to scale safely. Today, we are delivering just that across the board – from flexible on-premise cloud environments for highly regulated sectors, to open security protocols for developers, to localized tools for healthcare and classrooms. We want to ensure that the next wave of Indian innovation is secure, trusted, and built on locally relevant foundations.\u201d Manish Gupta, Senior Director for India and APAC at Google DeepMind, said: \u201cThe ultimate metric of AI progress isn’t just model parameters, but also in the positive transformation it enables. India is championing this as it adopts AI across every tier of the economy – from local merchants to national health initiatives. In bringing our frontier AI, on-premise capabilities, and commitment to safety, we aim to accelerate this momentum, and look forward to the country\u2019s AI learners, educators, builders, and innovators leading India\u2019s AI ambition from the front.\u201d Bringing AI to India\u2019s priorities in education, health and Inclusive AI Google announced two significant initiatives that bring its frontier AI capabilities to India’s learners, educators and AI builders, empowering them to lead the country\u2019s AI ambition from the front. Google DeepMind is bringing its rigorous AI Research Foundations curriculum – a free 56-hour program that equips learners to build and fine-tune Large Language Models, and drive high-impact AI research. Learners can earn industry-recognized Google Cloud Skill badges and certificates upon completion. Along with being available on the Google Skills platform, Google has partnered with NASSCOM and IISc Bangalore to scale the program with institutions across India, while AVPN, a network of social investors, will work with local partners to bring it to learners under the Google.org APAC AI Opportunity Fund. Google DeepMind is also launching ATL Saathi, deepening its collaboration with the Atal Innovation Mission. ATL Saathi is a desktop web application that gives teachers a Gemini-powered assistant to help deliver the Atal Tinkering Labs\u2019 curriculum and curate hands-on experiments for students. ATL Saathi is being rolled out to 100 schools this year, with an aim to eventually reach 10,000 schools served by the Atal Tinkering Labs program. Building on its momentum to bring AI advances to even more people across India, Gemini Live now supports 25 Indian languages and dialects, including Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, and Maithili. To further accelerate Indian innovation, Google is enabling Indian enterprises, including regulated industries and the public sector, to run Gemini on Google Distributed Cloud from within Indian data centres. To proactively help mitigate potential threats that might emerge with the misuse of agentic AI, Google is bringing Sec-Gemini v3, its specialised cybersecurity agent, to trusted government and enterprise testers including Flipkart. Sec-Gemini can reason across complex security data and help teams investigate incidents at machine speed. Google is open-sourcing a secure runtime environment known as CAPSEM (Capabilities Security for Agents) to help startups build securely with agentic AI. CAPSEM places each AI agent inside an isolated virtual machine. If an agent is compromised or encounters a malicious prompt, the wider system remains fully protected. To ensure that agentic AI continues to support interoperability as it is built on the foundations of trust and security, Google is driving open industry standards. The Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) standard makes stolen session cookies instantly useless to bad actors, while the Agents-to-Payments, operating alongside the open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, helps make authorised, low-value agent-led financial transactions (under $100) highly secure and accountable. Google has also established new collaborations with IIT Delhi and IIT Madras to drive research in agentic safety, including early threat detection and the development of next-generation Guardian Agents that help mitigate institutional risks. Third-party research found that 91% of surveyed Play app developers who used Google AI said that these tools directly or indirectly helped them generate more revenue, while 76% of adults said they would be interested in using AI tools to \u2018vibe code\u2019, or use natural, conversational language, to build their own apps. To further power their journeys, Google is bringing its Google Play Academy curriculum to 10,000 developers and app creators, partnering with the state governments of Rajasthan, Odisha, and Madhya Pradesh. The curriculum will help participants leverage the latest advances in agentic AI, and gain skills for building, launching, and scaling successful app and game businesses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google launched new initiatives for Indian developers and enterprises embracing AI. 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