{"id":71103,"date":"2026-05-14T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/71103\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:05:09","slug":"anthropic-gates-foundation-launch-200-million-partnership-for-ai-in-health-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/71103\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200 million partnership for AI in health, education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Jeffrey Dastin<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have pledged $200 million to back artificial intelligence-related public goods and areas including \u200chealth and education, they said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Support from Anthropic&#8217;s technical staff and \u200cusage credits for its Claude AI will account for its half of the financial commitment, while \u200bthe Bill Gates co-founded Gates Foundation will provide grant funding, program design and expertise, officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The commitment will span four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The news follows a $50 million pact that the Gates Foundation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/openai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:OpenAI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OpenAI&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> announced in January to support 1,000 African clinics and communities with \u200cAI by 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Against a backdrop \u2060of fears that AI could displace jobs and widen inequality, the new partnership is hoping to ensure the technology benefits more people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">One \u2060area of focus is language accessibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI systems;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI systems&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI systems<\/a> have performed poorly in writing and translating dozens of African languages, so Anthropic and the foundation want to support better data collection \u200band labeling \u200bthat would be released publicly to help \u200bimprove models across the industry, said \u200cJanet Zhou, a Gates Foundation director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The public-goods focus has come from &#8220;the needs of different partners and governments, including some of the fears that they may have around proprietary lock-in \u200cand sovereignty,&#8221; Zhou said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">One initiative will equip research \u200bcenters to use Claude to predict drug candidates \u200bfor treating HPV and preeclampsia, diseases \u200bthat have been less commercially attractive for pharmaceutical companies to research, \u200cZhou and Anthropic&#8217;s Elizabeth Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Anthropic, \u200ba startup backed by \u200bGoogle and Amazon.com whose value has soared on demand for its AI and coding tools, is embracing the work to fulfill what Kelly described as \u200bits founding mission to \u200cbenefit humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;This announcement is really core to who we are as a \u200bcompany,&#8221; said Kelly, who leads Anthropic&#8217;s beneficial deployments team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin \u200bin San Francisco; Editing by Himani Sarkar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have pledged $200 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[41004,587,651,4425,41003,31473,1019,41005],"class_list":{"0":"post-71103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bill-gates","8":"tag-african-languages","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-bill-gates","11":"tag-claude-ai","12":"tag-elizabeth-kelly","13":"tag-financial-commitment","14":"tag-gates-foundation","15":"tag-janet-zhou"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116573551265014224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}