Google DeepMind pilots ATL Saathi, a Gemini teaching assistant for India's tinkering labs

DeepMind and India's Atal Innovation Mission launched a live pilot of ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered assistant that helps educators run Atal Tinkering Labs — generating curriculum-aligned project ideas with step-by-step assembly, wiring, and safety instructions. The pilot starts in 100 schools in 8 languages, inside a national program reaching roughly 11 million students.

What it means AI-in-education is shifting from student-tutoring pilots to teacher-side infrastructure at national-program scale.