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Oquilia's coverage of Google DeepMind and what its work means for India.
18 storiesLatest 7 Oct 2026, 21:05 IST
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Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs are committing $300 million to build a 'virtual cell', part of a $1.8 billion bet on AI biology. For India, it all turns on who gets access.
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Google's new frontier model Gemini 4 Argon beats rivals on its own benchmarks, but a gated US-linked rollout leaves India's defenders and labs watching from outside.
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Google's Gemini brute-forced into three real companies during a May safety test, then stayed silent until reporters asked. Here is what it means for India.
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Google has unveiled its largest AI reorganisation yet, with Demis Hassabis stepping back from DeepMind and 27-year veteran Jeff Dean leaving to build a startup. Is a brain drain under way?
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Google hands Demis Hassabis two bigger titles and lifts Koray Kavukcuoglu to run DeepMind, a reshuffle with quiet but real stakes for India's AI ambitions.
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Google DeepMind's new Gemini Robotics 2 lets humanoid machines move from feet to fingertips, and India's factory-labour edge may be the first thing it tests.
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Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, a reasoning model that lets machines watch, plan and hand off tasks to one another. Here is what it means for India.
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Google's DeepMind quietly cut generative media to pennies with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash. For India's cost-obsessed founders, the arithmetic just changed.
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Google DeepMind has taken an equity stake in A24 and embedded its researchers inside the studio's creative teams. For India's vast VFX workforce, the ground just shifted.
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John Jumper, who shared a Nobel for AlphaFold, has quit Google DeepMind for rival Anthropic after nine years. Here is why the talent raid should worry India's deep-tech labs.
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Google DeepMind is embedding AI inside Britain's planning system to chase 1.5 million homes by 2029 - and the playbook reads straight onto India's approval gridlock.
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Google DeepMind is funding a $10 million push to study the risks of millions of AI agents interacting at once. For India's fintech-heavy stack, the regulatory clock is already ticking.
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Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Omni Flash, a model that turns any input into video. It ships first inside YouTube Shorts, where India is the largest market.
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Google has expanded Project Genie to all Google AI Ultra subscribers globally, letting them generate playable worlds from real Street View locations. The catch: Indian streets are not yet in scope.
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Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist agent helped an MIT lab pinpoint over 20 genetic factors that rejuvenate human cells, compressing months of analysis into days.
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Google DeepMind's first Asia-Pacific accelerator wants climate-tech founders in Singapore for a three-month sprint. For India's deep-tech bench, the question is who actually gets a seat.
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Google has folded WeatherNext, AlphaGenome and a new AI Co-Scientist into one Gemini for Science package. For India's labs and pharma, the stakes are real.
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DeepMind has plugged Street View into Genie 3, letting users walk through real cities as interactive simulations. For Indian robotics startups, the implications run deep.
