{"id":987189,"date":"2026-01-22T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987189"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:43:29","slug":"googles-new-initiative-for-startups-spurs-indias-ai-sovereignty-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/googles-new-initiative-for-startups-spurs-indias-ai-sovereignty-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s new initiative for startups spurs India\u2019s AI sovereignty question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new programme to support Indian AI startups has prompted analysts to caution that it may only increase reliance on Big Tech, even as a top executive at the technology behemoth said that the initiative will not involve direct capital infusion or equity stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The market-access programme, announced last week, is aimed at helping 30 Indian AI startups per cohort beyond the seed stage, and it\u2019s the \u201cfirst of its kind that we&#8217;re launching in India,\u201d Seema Rao, managing director for top partners India and corporate development at Google, told Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new programme to support Indian AI startups has prompted analysts to caution that it may only increase reliance on Big Tech, even as a top executive at the technology behemoth said that the initiative will not involve direct capital infusion or equity stakes. The market-access programme, announced last week, is aimed at helping 30 Indian AI startups per cohort beyond the seed stage, and it\u2019s the \u201cfirst of its kind that we&#8217;re launching in India,\u201d Seema Rao, managing director for top partners India and corporate development at Google, told Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}