Gates Foundation bets $1B on AI for health, education and agriculture
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-15
The Gates Foundation will invest at least $1 billion over two years to make AI tools widely available in health, education and agriculture. Bill Gates notes that over 90% of training data behind early language models came from English sources and speech recognition fails 60% of the time in Yoruba, arguing the market is 'a terrible guarantor of equal opportunity.'
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