Anthropic announced today that it is partnering with the Gates Foundation to "commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years."
"This commitment is central to Anthropicâ(TM)s efforts to extend the benefits of AI in areas where markets alone will not," the company says. Reuters reports: One area of focus is language accessibility. AI systems have performed poorly in writing and translating dozens âof African languages, so Anthropic and the foundation want to support better data collection âand labeling that would be released publicly to help improve models across the industry, said Janet âOEZhou, âa Gates Foundation director.
Another area under consideration is releasing so-called knowledge graphs that could help AI systems better meet the needs of teachers in sub-Saharan Africa and India, Zhou said. The public-goods focus has come from "the needs of different partners and governments, including some âof the fears that âthey may have âaround proprietary lock-in and sovereignty," Zhou said.
One initiative will equip research centers to use Claude to predict drug candidates for treating âHPV and preeclampsia, diseases that have been less commercially attractive for âpharmaceutical companies âto research, Zhou and Anthropic's Elizabeth Kelly said. Anthropic [...] is embracing âthe work âto fulfill what Kelly described as its founding âmission to benefit humanity. "This announcement is really core to who we are as a company," said Kelly, who âleads Anthropic's beneficial deployments team.
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