Gates Foundation commits at least $1B to AI over two years
The Gates Foundation has committed at least $1 billion over two years for AI in education, multilingual access, health and agriculture; the split is undisclosed.
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The Gates Foundation has committed at least $1 billion globally to AI development over the next two years, with funding focused on education, making AI work across more languages and local contexts, health, and agriculture.
The commitment comes from the foundation's 2026 Goalkeepers report, which also notes that more than 90% of the data used to train early large language models came from English-language sources, leaving African economies at risk of being left behind.
Semafor, the reporting outlet, discloses that its Next 3 Billion series receives financial support from the Gates Foundation; the split of the $1 billion across areas has not been published.