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Google.org commits $20M to researchers using AI for scientific breakthroughs
Google is committing $20 million in cash and $2 million in cloud credits to a new funding initiative to help scientific breakthroughs.
But similar to other Big Tech funding and partnership initiatives, this will go some way toward helping Google ingratiate itself with some of the leading scientific minds, through direct cash injections and by providing infrastructure to power their projects. The one thing winning applicants should have in common is that they will be using “AI to address increasingly complex problems at the intersections of different disciplines of science,” according to an accompanying blog post from Maggie Johnson, Google VP and global head of Google.org, “I believe artificial intelligence will help scientists and researchers achieve some of the greatest breakthroughs of our time,” Hassabis said in a stock statement issued to TechCrunch.
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