Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and Google India have partnered to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption across education and research. The collaboration will focus on building AI capabilities, enabling responsible technology use, and creating opportunities for students and faculty to engage with emerging AI tools and applications.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), an Institution of Eminence and a Deemed-to-be-University, has partnered with Google India to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across its academic and institutional ecosystem, with a strategic focus on healthcare and medical education. The collaboration positions AI as a core component of the university’s efforts to reshape teaching, research, healthcare applications and institutional operations.
The partnership supports MAHE’s MAGIC (MAHE Agentic Intelligence Console) initiative, through which the university is working toward its vision of becoming a full-fledged AI-agentic university. Through MAGIC, MAHE is engaging with global technology companies to build capabilities around AI-led innovation, research and education while exploring practical applications that can improve how the institution delivers academic and healthcare outcomes.
MAHE and Google India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on September 26, establishing a framework for collaboration around AI technologies and applications. The partnership gives MAHE access to Google’s technology expertise and AI capabilities as the university develops use cases across healthcare, medical education and academic learning.
A key component of the collaboration involves exploring the establishment of a Google-powered AI Centre of Excellence at MAHE. Such a center could provide an institutional platform for AI research, experimentation and skills development, while bringing faculty, students and researchers together to develop applications that address real-world challenges in education and healthcare.
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The two organizations will also explore AI-enabled healthcare research using Gemini and other Google tools. This could expand the role of AI in areas such as research workflows, clinical education, medical learning and the analysis of complex healthcare-related information, while creating opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration between technology and healthcare researchers.
The partnership also emphasizes academic integration. MAHE plans to explore collaborations that strengthen AI-based teaching and learning and help faculty and students build practical familiarity with emerging AI technologies. By embedding AI capabilities within academic programs and research environments, the university aims to prepare learners for workplaces where AI increasingly influences professional decision-making and knowledge-intensive processes.
Speaking about the collaboration, K. Sharath Rao, Vice-Chancellor, MAHE, says, “AI is transforming the way universities approach education, research and healthcare. Through MAGIC, MAHE is building an ecosystem that integrates agentic AI into our academic and institutional processes. Our partnership with Google India will bring global expertise and advanced AI capabilities to this effort, with a particular focus on healthcare and medical education. We look forward to developing meaningful applications that enhance learning, research and healthcare outcomes”.
The collaboration reflects the broader shift among higher education institutions toward moving beyond conventional AI adoption and building structured, institution-wide AI ecosystems. For MAHE, the partnership with Google India creates a pathway to combine academic expertise with enterprise-grade technology capabilities while developing AI applications tailored to healthcare, medical education and research.
By connecting faculty development, student learning, research and healthcare innovation under the MAGIC initiative, MAHE is seeking to make AI adoption part of its long-term institutional strategy rather than limiting it to individual academic or technology projects.
