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Harsh Dhand shared thisIt was an absolute pleasure to join our partners at the @GlobalFintechFest 2026 to celebrate two defining milestones in India’s fintech journey. NPCI’s FiMI Banking: Powered by Gemma 4, this is India’s first compact model trained specifically for Indian retail banking. Its agentic capabilities include completing actions for users in a secure environment, further enabling people-centric banking. BharatPe’s Agentic AI: Built with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform on Google Cloud, this voice-first assistant meets India’s merchants right where they are, in their own language - serving as a trusted daily partner to streamline operations and unlock business growth. These solutions demonstrate that when AI focuses on local needs, scale and inclusion naturally follow. Many thanks to the teams at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) and BharatPe for including us in your journeys. We can’t wait to see the AI-powered innovations that the Indian ecosystem builds next. #GoogleAI #Gemma #Gemini #FinancialInclusion #GFF2026Harsh Dhand shared thisBanking AI needs to do more than answer questions. It needs to carry out complex tasks in real-world scenarios, and to do so safely. Introducing FiMI Banking: a sovereign, compact model built for Indian retail banking, designed to act within a bank's defined rules rather than simply answer queries. We are open sourcing the research, a curated RL environment in Nvidia's NeMo Gym and the benchmarks, including IndicBank Bench and the Tau Banking Benchmark. These benchmarks measure what a model does: whether it follows the rules, uses the correct tools, handles sensitive interactions appropriately, and achieves the right outcome in banking context. Our goal is a shared foundation that banks, fintechs, researchers and the wider open source community can examine, reproduce and improve. Grateful to Nitin Mishra, Executive Director - NPCI; Vishal Kanvaty, CTO, NPCI; Shri Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, South Asia, NVIDIA India and Prashant Devadiga, Deputy Chief AI and Data Science, NPCI for their guidance and support through this effort. TauIndicBankBench: https://lnkd.in/d_wsadmq IndicBankBench: https://lnkd.in/dyfACrNA FiMI Banking Technical Report: https://lnkd.in/dYparpjR NeMoRL: https://lnkd.in/dQNvW3D5 Dilip Asbe | Sohini Rajola | Nitin Mishra | Vishal Anand Kanvaty | Vishal Dhupar | Prashant Devadiga | Amit Sehgal | Harsh Dhand #FiMIBanking #NPCI #OpenSourceAI #BankingAI #Fintech
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Harsh Dhand shared thisOur DNA is a script made of 3 billion "letters". We share 99.9% of these "letters" with every other human. The remaining 0.1% of single-letter differences makes us unique, but it can also hold the genetic switches for complex diseases. Understanding the biological impact of every possible mutation was once nearly impossible. Today, we're launching AlphaGenome Atlas to make that knowledge more accessible to everyone in the scientific community: The Map: Indexes all 9 billion potential single-letter changes across the 3-billion-letter genomic script. The Access: Transforms an impossible laboratory puzzle into a free reference guide, searchable in any standard web browser. The Impact: Partners like Australia’s Centre for Population Genomics are already using it to advance rare disease research across diverse communities. Explore the AlphaGenome Atlas: https://lnkd.in/g8bC3aptAlphaGenome Atlas: Molecular predictions for 9 Billion human DNA variantsAlphaGenome Atlas: Molecular predictions for 9 Billion human DNA variants
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Harsh Dhand shared thisHappy #TeachersDay! To all the incredible teachers who inspire, innovate, and believe in their students every single day – thank you. YOUR dedication shapes the future, and I’m honoured to work on products that support their mission. In India and various parts of APAC where School and College Education by dedicated teachers forms the bedrock for our life-long learning and success 🎓 , here's a brief tribute https://lnkd.in/eeeS734k and https://lnkd.in/ebZNNzjy Join the Teachers Day celebrations, become a #GoogleAIEducator and start earning your badges → goo.gle/ges-india-live #GESIndia #GoogleAIEducatorSeries #GoogleEdu #GeminiEdu #TeacherLifeHonouring educators across India this Teachers DayHonouring educators across India this Teachers Day
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Harsh Dhand shared this🚀 Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash & 3.8 Flash Cyber! Our newest models deliver frontier-level coding, multi-step agentic reasoning, and autonomous security defense—at signature Flash speed and low cost Defenders gain automated vulnerability detection and patching via our new Fairwind Program - https://lnkd.in/gMJvJDsv Snehal Thorat Sumita Kaul 🔗 Read the Gemini 3.8 Flash announcement: https://lnkd.in/gUVfJzYz #GoogleAI #Gemini #Cybersecurity #SoftwareEngineering
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Harsh Dhand shared this🚀 Celebrating a massive milestone in the open AI ecosystem: Gemma has officially surpassed 1 Billion downloads! What started as a simple goal to empower developers with flexible, responsible open models has blossomed into a thriving global community—the Gemmaverse. Over 100,000 model variants have been created, pushing the boundaries of what is possible Here is a quick snapshot of how developers are taking Gemma to the edge and beyond: DomainReal-World Impact🛰️ Space ExplorationTeams at NASA, Satlyt, and Starcloud are running Gemma in orbit to power onboard image analysis.🏥 Healthcare ScaleIntegrated into India's Aarogya Setu 2.0 (100M+ users) to standardize digital health records.🧬 Medical ScienceC2S-Scale (built on Gemma) discovered a novel cancer therapy pathway verified in living cells.🐬 Interspecies ResearchDolphinGemma is processing vocalizations to decode underwater dolphin communication 🛠️ What's Next? To help developers collaborate and share their creations, Google has officially launched the "Awesome Gemma" GitHub repository—your ultimate launchpad for community projects, fine-tunes, and tutorials. 👉 Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dwuruXz5 #AI #Gemma #OpenSource #TechInnovation #DeveloperCommunity #GoogleDeepMindInside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloadsInside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloads
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Harsh Dhand shared thisDeeply honored and humbled to share that representing Google India we are recognized as the Ecosystem Builder at the #NasscomFutureForge2026 Deeptech Champions awards! This recognition celebrates our collective effort to strengthen India's Deeptech ecosystem between April 2025 and March 2026—spanning enterprise access, R&D infrastructure, and startup collaboration. This award truly belongs to the incredible team at Google India and our phenomenal partners across India. Building a thriving Deeptech landscape is a team sport, driven by: Startup Collaboration: Partnering with pioneering founders to help scale their breakthroughs. R&D & Infrastructure Access: Enabling access to world-class resources and cutting-edge technology. Ecosystem Partnerships: Working hand-in-hand with industry leaders, researchers, and government bodies to nurture innovation from the ground up. The journey of Deeptech in India is just getting started, and we are excited to keep building, supporting, and innovating together! 🚀🇮🇳 with Manish Gupta Preeti Lobana Rajesh Ranjan Ashwani Sharma Aastha Wahi Tapan Malhotra Rajroshan Sawhney #NasscomFutureForge2026 #GoogleIndia #Deeptech #EcosystemBuilder #Partnerships #Startups #InnovationHarsh Dhand shared thisAt #NasscomFutureForge2026, the Nasscom Deeptech Champions segment recognized the organizations that strengthened India's Deeptech ecosystem between April 2025 and March 2026, from enterprise access to R&D infrastructure to startup collaboration. The winners: → GOOGLE INDIA - Ecosystem Builder → IBM Research India - Deeptech R&D Catalyst → Maruti Suzuki Innovation- Enterprise Early Market Access Enabler → NetApp Excellerator, VSpark DeepTech Ventures (Part of Vedanta Group) - Corporate Startup Collaboration Leader Each category points to a different piece of what the ecosystem needs to function: capital and mentorship access, dedicated R&D infrastructure, enterprise pilots that actually convert, and corporates willing to build alongside startups instead of just buying from them. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | Google for Business India | VSpark DeepTech Ventures | IBM | IBM Quantum | NetApp Excellerator | Sangeeta Gupta | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Nehal Pandya | Shivam Sareen | Mayank Kumar | Khushbu Gupta | Dr. Karthik Mahesh | Niraj Kumar | Ankita Puranik | Prashant verma | Vinay Kumar C. | Aishwarya K | Anupam Ghosh | Nahla A | Sai Rohit | Pramod G I | Amitesh Sinha | Akarsh Hebbar | Avnish Sabharwal | Dr. Tapan Sahoo | Hemavathy H V | M Naveen Kumar | Preeti Lobana | Manish Gupta | Harsh Dhand #NasscomFutureForge2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Ecosystem #DeeptechChampionsSpotlight
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Harsh Dhand shared thisGot a big vision for the planet and the AI chops to back it up? 🌍🤖 Applications are open for the inaugural cohort Google DeepMind Accelerator program in APAC focused on “AI for the Planet”! We’re on the lookout for APAC-based startups, research teams, and non-profits using frontier AI to tackle our biggest environmental challenges. Whether you are building solutions centered on AI-enabled nature protection, sustainable agriculture, and forest protection, we want to help you take your impact to the next level. 🚀 What’s in store for you? 🤝 Equity-free support during the program and ongoing help through the alumni network. 🧠 Tailored technical and business training, with exclusive invitations to Google tech bootcamp. 👥 Dedicated tech, product, and business mentoring from Google teams and AI experts. 🧑💻 Support from Google DeepMind and Google Research experts to build AI solutions using Google AI stack including frontier models. ☁️ Eligible organizations receive Google Cloud credits and free Cloud TPUs. 🎤 Showcase solutions to mentors, investors, partners, and ecosystem at Demo Day. Ready to build for the future? Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gPxAbYjK Know a brilliant founder or researcher who fits the bill? Tag them below! 👇 #AcceleratedWithGoogle #GoogleDeepMind #AIforThePlanet
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Harsh Dhand reposted thisHarsh Dhand reposted thisSuper excited to share that applications for the Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet (APAC) are open! - https://lnkd.in/dnfZt9qZ Got a big vision for the planet and the AI chops to back it up? 🌍🤖 We’re on the lookout for APAC-based startups, research teams, and non-profits using frontier AI to tackle our biggest environmental challenges. Whether you are building solutions centered on AI-enabled nature protection, sustainable agriculture, and forest protection, we want to help you take your impact to the next level. 🚀 Ready to build for the future? Apply Before: July 26, 2026 https://lnkd.in/dU9yPSz5 Know a brilliant founder or researcher who fits the bill? Tag them below! 👇 #AcceleratedWithGoogle #GoogleDeepMind #AIforThePlanet Google | Google DeepMind | Google for Startups | Google for Developers Sami Kizilbash, Dr Ramine Tinati, Farish CV, Harshit Joshi, Spencer Low, Rachel S Teo, Kaela Montgomery, Manish Gupta, Harsh Dhand, Kevin O'Toole, Karthik Padmanabhan, Smita Bagwadi
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Harsh Dhand shared thisSuper Summary of my dialogue with Pankaj Rohatgi yesterday at Google IO connect India 2026. thanks to the amazing PSS teams Sumita Kaul Snehal Thorat and many more regional and global teams. #GoogleIOConnect.Harsh Dhand shared thisAt #GoogleIOConnect, we shared new initiatives to help developers build, deploy, and scale agentic AI with security at the core. goo.gle/4aQbdxo Here's what's new: 🛡️ Sec-Gemini v3: Our specialized cybersecurity agent can reason across complex security data to help security operations teams automate tasks at machine speed. We are bringing this to trusted government and enterprise testers, including Flipkart. 💻 CodeMender: Building on Project Zero's Big Sleep research, this agent takes the next step by automatically writing security fixes and contributing them directly back to open-source projects. 🔒 CAPSEM (Capability-Safe Execution Model): Open-sourced by our Privacy and Security Research team, this secure runtime environment places each AI agent inside an isolated virtual machine to restrict access and protect the wider system. 🤝 Securing interactions between agents: Introducing Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), an open W3C standard for more secure sessions, and Agents-to-Payments (AP2), an open protocol for secure, authorized agent-led financial transactions. Together, these initiatives are helping lay the safety foundations for India's agentic future, empowering developers to build AI that is secure, trustworthy, and responsible by design. #BuildWithGemini
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Harsh Dhand liked thisCan officially confirm my response to "When Gemini 4?" is no longer an ambiguous smile. Excited for what’s to come!Harsh Dhand liked thisLots of discussion out there about our next model, so I wanted to give an early look as soon as possible. Introducing Gemini 4 Argon! It shows frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering. Teams are using it extensively at Google, from coding to quantum computing, great feedback. Importantly Argon has frontier safeguards and we are rolling it out responsibly - it’s with the US gov’t and going to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program today. We’re going to make it available as soon as we can and as safely as we can. So hold tight, lots more coming, and you’re going to see us iterating rapidly. https://lnkd.in/gTiQb7DA
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisMom was unwell from quite some time. She was 84 & struggling with her basic daily chores. Sadly, we lost her on 24th Sep 26 at 1030 pm. These lines were shared by me at a gig, few days before her final journey. Impromptu & not rehearsed. Never knew her death was so close. Whilst life will go on, something has changed forever. I was with her when she breathed her last. One last eye contact, one last tear, before she closed her eyes & left us. Dedicated to everyone who has lost his mother. To everyone who can resonate with these feelings. Love you Maa 🙏 #mother #maa
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisOfficially "elevated"APAC Elevate for Sales Agentic AI In-person Attendee was issued by Explore Google Cloud to Maria Carolina Vergo.APAC Elevate for Sales Agentic AI In-person Attendee was issued by Explore Google Cloud to Maria Carolina Vergo.
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisAt the start of 2026, one of my main career goals was to get more plugged into the local ecosystem here in the little red dot my family and I now call home. Thanks to Yolyn Ang for pointing me toward the inaugural cohort of SGLN Tech! These past 6 months brought some truly invaluable lessons - from how we show up as leaders during turbulent times to appreciating cultural nuances without letting them bias our approach. While the time and energy investment was real (and occasionally tiring!), it was deeply fulfilling. A big thank you to Nadir Zafar (emeritus), Himmat Singh, Rebecca Raja Kumar, Carolina Yeo and the entire Singapore Leaders Network (SGLN) team for putting together such an impactful journey. More than anything, I’m grateful for the friendships and community built along the way. So glad to have shared the design sprint with my teammates Reena Banyal, YZ Tan, Suryanto Lee, Vinay Jain. If you’re interested in learning more, SGLN Tech is currently taking registrations of interest for the 2027 cohort. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/g9T2yjjh
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked this✨ 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗘𝗔-𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝘃𝟰.𝟴, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝘆𝗲𝘁! ✨ 𝗦𝗘𝗔-𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝘃𝟰.𝟴 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲. Our largest model so far, and our first built on Mixture-of-Experts and Mamba architectures. This release builds on Nemotron 3. Like Apertus, Nemotron makes its pretraining data and full training recipe available alongside its weights. That gives us transparency and a process that can be reproduced. We continued pretraining on 30 to 150 billion tokens, using a data mixture designed for downstream capability. We have now built and implemented an RL-agentic based continuous post-training pipeline: supervised fine-tuning combined with on-policy distillation, with Nemotron 3 Ultra scoring the student model’s live generations. For a single model, that meant ~3,000 concurrent agent instances (scaled dynamically) across more than total 100,000 sessions, all contributing to one training run. 📊 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗘𝗔-𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗠 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 Compared with the base models, scores improved by 𝟰.𝟲𝟴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝗕 and 𝟭𝟰.𝟭𝟰 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟮𝟬𝗕. The gains were largest where the gaps were widest: at 120B, Burmese improved 𝟲.𝟯× and Tamil 𝟮.𝟲×. See the chart for the full picture. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱. Nemotron 3 has real strengths, including openness. But its data mix and tokenizer were not designed for Southeast Asia, and our SEA-LION v4.5 models still score higher overall on SEA-HELM (see leaderboard.sea-lion.ai) This release advances another part of our work: building on 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻, 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, exploring new architectures, and developing how we train models for the region. We will do more, but also look out for our performance line. 🙇 Thank you to NVIDIA especially Christopher Low Verdi March Dr. Deb Goswami for its commitment to open source and collaboration on this release. As usual, the SEA-LION team did wonders. Huge thanks to 👨💻 Tai Ngee Chia Leong Wai Yi Raymond_ Ng Rengarajan Hamsawardhini Karthik Nagarajan Jeongmi Ahn for their efforts in developing our customised unified training pipeline! Links: - Technical Report https://lnkd.in/g_8ius9h - Models (incl quantized versions) on HF https://lnkd.in/g4KQRuUF - Datasets on HF https://lnkd.in/gc9qkbpg - Blog Post https://lnkd.in/gv-44Qkt William Tjhi Mark Pereira David Ong Esther Choa Darius Liu, CFA, CAIA Jian Gang Ngui Abigail Toh Adwin Chan Rachel Liewiew Peerat Limkonchotiwat Michelle Loh Richard Goh Cathy C. Shaowei Ying Ofir Shalevlev #AI #AISG #AISingapore #OpenSource #Multimodal #EdgeAI #SoutheastAsia #MachineLearning #Apertus #Nemotron
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisAIIMS New Delhi welcomed Preeti Lobana, VP and Head of Google India, and the Google team to review ongoing collaboration on AI in healthcare. The visit focused on Indus Derma and Aarogyam, two applications being developed in collaboration with Google, to support dermatology care, patient intake, triage and clinical documentation. Discussions centred on integrating these tools into clinical practice, with patient needs, clinical feedback and validation guiding their development. The meeting was attended by Dr Nikhil Tandon, Director, AIIMS New Delhi, along with Dr Somesh Gupta, Dr Vivek Gupta, Dr Vivek Tandon, Krithika Rangarajan, Aastha Wahi, Harsh Dhand, Ashish Wattal and Shruti Gadgil. #AIIMS #Google #DigitalHealth #AIinHealthcare
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Harsh Dhand liked thisExcited to share that our workshop, Security and Privacy Foundations for LLMs (SPF-LLM), has been accepted to the AAAI 2027 Workshop Program! This collaborative effort brings together researchers from academia and industry to advance research on the security and privacy of large language models. Grateful to all my wonderful co-organizers for making this happen: Giorgio Severi, Ehsan Aghaei, Ph.D. Mohammad Zandsalimy, PhD, Martine De Cock, and Mayana Pereira. 📍 AAAI 2027 | Montréal, Canada 📅 February 22–23, 2027 Looking forward to bringing the community together and seeing you in Montréal! https://lnkd.in/gCf-p2wzHarsh Dhand liked thisHappy to share that our workshop proposal, Security and Privacy Foundations for LLMs (SPF-LLM), has been accepted for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)-'27 Workshop Program. This workshop grew out of a collaborative effort bringing together researchers from Cisco , MicrosoftMicrosoft, Synopsys IncSynopsys Inc, Capital OneCapital One, Northeastern UniversityNortheastern University, and the University of Washington, with a shared interest in advancing the foundations of security and privacy for large language models. SPF-LLM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across academia and industry to exchange ideas, share emerging research, and explore new directions toward more secure, privacy-preserving, and trustworthy LLM systems. I’m grateful to everyone involved in putting this proposal together Shanu Sushmita, Giorgio Severi, Mohammad Zandsalimy, PhD, Martine De Cock, Mayana Pereira 📍AAAI-27 — Montréal, Canada 🗓️February 22–23, 2027 More details, including the call for papers, will be coming soon. Looking forward to seeing many of you in Montréal!
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisThe light from a star can take years to reach us. A university ranking works in much the same way. Last week, the ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects placed #NTUsg among the world’s top 10 for nine subjects, including first in Artificial Intelligence for the second year running. Much of the work behind our results in AI started in labs and conversations long before AI became the subject everyone wanted to talk about. A ranking captures light that began its journey years earlier. At NTU, that light comes from our people. In AI, NTU scored highest among the leading universities for world-class faculty, a measure that draws on award laureates, highly cited researchers and editors of leading journals. Behind indicators like this are colleagues who chose to tackle hard problems years ago and stayed with them. Even so, rankings are imperfect instruments. They can show us the impact of work already done, but they cannot tell us which of today's ideas will matter most a decade from now. Some of those ideas are taking shape in our labs today. As we pursue #NTU2030, my hope is that we continue to choose the hard problems, give our researchers the room to work on them, and stay with those ideas until their light reaches the world. My congratulations and thanks to everyone at NTU whose work these results reflect. #AIatNTUsg Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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Harsh Dhand liked thisHarsh Dhand liked thisFinally met my "friend" and mentor, M. Vidyasagar, at @iitmaa Sangam today 🙏 For those who don't know him that well, he was doing AI before most of us even knew the term. He was the founding director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), started in 1989.
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