We’re collaborating with the Gates Foundation to dedicate $200 million in grants, Claude usage credits, and technical assistance to initiatives in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the coming four years. These programs will be carried out in partnership with organizations in the US and globally. This pledge lies at the heart of Anthropic’s mission to broaden AI’s positive impact in domains that markets on their own will not serve. This initiative is spearheaded by our Beneficial Deployments team, which offers Claude credits and technical assistance to partners working in the four priority areas outlined above. The team also creates AI public goods like public health datasets and evaluation benchmarks, while providing nonprofits and educational institutions with discounted access to Claude. We are ramping up our funding for high-impact deployments and intend to provide more details on our strategy for this work, along with the results of the programs we’ve backed. Below, we describe our partnership with the Gates Foundation, including new initiatives we’re launching and projects already in progress.
Global health and life sciences. Our partnership will primarily center on enhancing health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, home to approximately 4.6 billion people who lack access to essential health services. Anthropic will collaborate with the Gates Foundation and other partners on various new and existing initiatives to speed up the creation of innovative vaccines and treatments, while also helping governments leverage health data for quicker, more effective decision-making. As part of this healthcare intelligence effort, we will develop connectors that give Claude direct access to other platforms and tools, along with benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to help researchers, developers, and governments better assess AI performance on healthcare-related tasks. We will also partner with the Gates Foundation to work with health ministries and their partners on applying health-intelligence data to improve decisions in areas such as workforce deployment, supply chain management, and outbreak detection. Together, we’ll discover how AI can more effectively assist frontline healthcare workers and patients in diagnosis, treatment, and medical decision-making. We’ll also leverage Claude to drive research into high-burden and neglected diseases.
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