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Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money

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Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have committed $200 million over four years to fund AI programmes in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. The partnership will use Claude to accelerate vaccine research for neglected diseases, build literacy tools for sub-Saharan Africa and India, and release public benchmarks and datasets. It is four times the size of OpenAI’s $50 million Gates Foundation deal announced at Davos in January.

Anthropic has committed $200 million over four years to a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest deal of its kind between an AI company and a global philanthropy. The money, a mix of grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support, will fund programmes in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility, with partners in the United States and developing countries. Anthropic’s contribution takes the form of engineering staff time and API credits; the...

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