Anthropic and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) Launch $200 Million AI Partnership

Key facts

• Anthropic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Gates Foundation) have pledged $200 million over four years to support artificial intelligence (AI) public goods in health and education.
• Anthropic will contribute technical staff and usage credits for its Claude AI, while the Gates Foundation will provide grant funding, programme design, and expertise.
• The initiative focuses on improving AI capabilities in African languages and developing knowledge graphs for teachers in India and sub-Saharan Africa.
• The partnership will equip research centres to use Claude to predict drug candidates for treating preeclampsia and Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
• The Gates Foundation and OpenAI previously announced a $50 million pact in January to support 1,000 African clinics and communities with AI by 2028.