The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named 48 grant recipients in its AI Grand Challenge, seeking to encourage new applications of artificial intelligence by researchers in low- and middle-income countries.
- The goal is to use large language models to reduce global inequity, focusing on areas including health, agriculture, and education.
- Each grant recipient is eligible for up to $100,000 in funding, totaling up to $5 million overall. Recipients are listed here.
- The Gates Foundation had originally slated $3 million in total funding. In a news release Wednesday morning, the foundation said it received “an overwhelming response” to its request for proposals.
- The foundation launched its Grand Challenges program in 2003, targeting problems in global health and development. There have been more than 3,600 grants in 118 countries, through the foundation and its partners.
