India — Google has introduced Google DeepMind’s AI Research Foundations curriculum in India, offering students and technical learners free access to a 56-hour programme focused on building, training and fine-tuning modern language models.
Announced at Google I/O Connect India on July 14, 2026, the programme is available through the Google Skills platform. It is designed primarily for university students and community learners who have Python knowledge and are studying computer science, mathematics, physics or other technical subjects.
The curriculum aims to provide learners with a deeper understanding of the technologies behind large language models such as Google Gemini. Participants will receive hands-on instruction covering language data representation, neural-network design, model training and the development of smaller language models from the ground up.
Learners completing the programme can earn Google Cloud Skill badges and certificates. Google said the curriculum has recorded more than 38,000 enrolments globally, with participants reporting that the training supported their professional development.
To expand the programme’s reach in India, Google is working with the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, NASSCOM and AVPN. IISc Bengaluru has already started incorporating the curriculum into its learning programmes, while NASSCOM will make it available through the FutureSkills Prime platform.
The curriculum’s wider deployment is being supported partly through the Google.org AI Opportunity Fund in Asia-Pacific. Through the initiative, Google.org is supporting AVPN, a network of social investors, to work with local organisations and deliver research-backed AI education resources to learners across India.
Higher-education institutions and industry organisations can also integrate AI Research Foundations into their own courses and monitor learner progress through Google Skills.
The programme is intended to strengthen India’s pipeline of technically trained AI developers and researchers as universities, startups and enterprises expand their work in generative AI and language-model development. However, the curriculum is aimed at learners with an existing technical foundation and should not be described as an introductory AI-literacy course for complete beginners.
Google DeepMind develops artificial intelligence models and research technologies, including the Gemini family of models. Google Skills is the company’s learning platform for AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics and other technical skills.
