Anthropic Forms $200 Million Partnership With the Gates Foundation
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/05/14/1648206/anthropic-forms-200-million-partnership-with-the-gates-foundation
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"This commitment is central to Anthropic'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 of African languages, so Anthropic and the foundation want to support better data collection and labeling that would be released publicly to help improve models across the industry, said Janet Zhou, a Gates Foundation director.
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> 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 of the fears that they may have around proprietary lock-in and sovereignty," Zhou said.
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> One initiative will equip research centers to use Claude to predict drug candidates for treating HPV and preeclampsia, diseases that have been less commercially attractive for pharmaceutical companies to research, Zhou and Anthropic's Elizabeth Kelly said. Anthropic [...] is embracing the work to fulfill what Kelly described as its founding mission to benefit humanity. "This announcement is really core to who we are as a company," said Kelly, who leads Anthropic's beneficial deployments team.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-gates-foundation-launch-200-million-partnership-ai-health-education-2026-05-14/
200 million in usage credits (Score:3)
Yeah, I know that game all too well. Anthropic writes down an exaggerated value of the "usage credits" that they provide, but IRL it doesn't cost them much at all since most of the datacenter costs are already sunk.
So, Anthropic can claim that they're providing a hundred trilllyyooonnnnn dollars of AI support that in fact costs them almost nothing extra, the Gates foundation gets free AI, and Anthropic gets to harvest the usage data from a massive foundation. Always remember the value of the data. Everyone wins. To top it all off, I wonder if Anthropic gets a tax writeoff since providing services to a nonprofit might be deductible?
I'm not grumbling about any of this. It's the way these things work.
When in doubt, buy clout (Score:1)
The AI crash is coming. The data centers aren't being built: [1]https://www.wheresyoured.at/wh... [wheresyoured.at]
Anthropic and OpenAI will need TRILLIONS in revenue to justify the CapEx, and people aren't buying. Get ready.
[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/
Re: (Score:2)
> The AI crash is coming. The data centers aren't being built: [1]https://www.wheresyoured.at/wh... [wheresyoured.at]
The less infrastructure that is actually built the less severe the crash will be. That is actually a good thing.
[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/
Giving out claude credits?!?! (Score:2)
They are trying to bootstrap usage by placing some value on Claude credits that will surely woo people not using Claude. /s
I've used Meta AI several times but only for art work based on my RPG game scene descriptions. We used to have a talented artist as part of the group, but she's moved on. My skills creatively are limited to writing, but I've gotten spoiled with pic's of my NPC's. I make my maps painfully thru Campaign cartographer, but visual aids add so much to the game.
I Apologize (Score:4, Funny)
I said some kind words about Anthropic when they refused to do targeting foreign and domestic.
In retrospect that was myopic praise.
Yuck (Score:2)
It's like an infestation with Altman being patient zero.
Microsoft Anthropic :o (Score:2)
[1]Jan 1997 [edge-op.org]: ‘I proposed a "Java Language Council" made up of key tools vendors - MS, Borland, Symantec, PowerSoft (any others?) - who would cooperate to lean on JavaSoft’
[2]Apr 1997 [gotthefacts.org]: “How do we wrest control of Java away from Sun?”
[3]May 1997 [edge-op.org] : “Microsoft initial attempt to get control of Java has failed.”
[4]May 1997 [gotthefacts.org]: “I am hard core about NOT supporting JDK 1.2.”
[5]June 1997 [edge-op.org]: ‘we need to make sure we don't do anything that lets Sun claim we are advancing
[1] http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04258.pdf
[2] http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/122106/PLEX0_4482.pdf
[3] http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02712.pdf
[4] http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/122106/PLEX0_2710.pdf
[5] http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04264.pdf
Not waving, drowning (Score:1)
AI has plateaued, the crash is coming.
I don't think so (Score:1)
The billionaires are pushing this and they have unlimited money. And they don't particularly care about profit anymore.
I know that sounds counterintuitive but they have so much money now, literally some of them are approaching trillions, that they are beyond profit..
What they want right now is automation and they don't care how they get it or what it costs.
People keep asking me, if they don't employ anyone who is going to buy their products?
Now if you read that sentence again you're going to