AI can accelerate progress toward a more equitable world, but moving from potential to impact isn’t inevitable – it depends on making deliberate choices. Our work in AI is focused on ensuring its benefits reach people most often left out and that AI is grounded in real-world needs.
The Gates Foundation was built on the belief that everyone should have the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of where they were born. That belief comes with a…
The partnerships making it possible A handheld device may be small, but getting it into the hands of a trained health worker takes a much larger partnership. This work is…
For AI to benefit everyone around the globe, it has to understand every language—not just English. Chenai Chair and the Masakhane African Languages Hub are working to make that happen.
60 initial signatories – frontier AI labs, researchers, companies, governments, community organizations, and philanthropic organizations – will bring expertise and resources to the effort and invite others to join NEW…
Google and the Gates Foundation have directed more than $100M in combined funding and dedicated technical support from Google researchers to deploy real-time climate, agricultural, and language AI tools. MOUNTAIN…
The 2026 Goalkeepers Report explores how AI could close longstanding gaps in global health and well-being—or widen them. The choices we make now will determine what future we get.
Commits to partnering with governments that put people’s health and wellbeing first ADDIS ABABA (June 2, 2025) – In an address today in Nelson Mandela Hall at the African Union, Gates…
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (21 November 2024) –At the Misk Global Forum in Riyadh, the Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (Misk) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the Challenge for Change,…
