US EditionZuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is focusing on AI-powered biology to accelerate disease research, aiming to leverage 10,000 GPUs by 2028, Biohub said.
- On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, combining AI and biology to advance research with Biohub.
- Last year, Chan said CZI would prioritize funding science, despite initially focusing on education and disease, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chan founded their charitable foundation in 2015.
- Biohub will partner with EvolutionaryScale to leverage AI, commit to the four scientific challenges including `using AI to reprogram and harness the immune system for early detection, prevention, and treatment of disease`, and expand compute to 10,000 GPUs by 2028.
- `When we started, our goal was to help scientists cure or prevent all diseases this century`, Zuckerberg said, while Biohub expects to compress decades of discoveries into months to `unlock frontier medicine`.
- Following earlier program cuts, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is reorienting toward science, stating it's going 'all in on AI-powered biology for our next chapter' after ending education staff and education policy grants.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan founded Biohub in 2016.Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via Reuters ConnectMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's charity has launched an initiative combining AI and biology.Biohub announced the initiative on Thursday, saying it will use AI to advance scientific research.It's the latest pivot for the charity, which originally launched to fix education and cure disease.The philanthropy that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his …
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Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan, along with her husband Mark Zuckerberg, have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty goal — “to cure, prevent or manage all disease” — if not in their lifetime, then in their children’s.
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