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* AI & Advanced Computing * Opportunities for Funding [](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences. org/) It’s 2050.
AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened? [](https://ai2050.
schmidtsciences. org/) What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome? This is AI2050’s motivating question.
The initiative aims to answer this question by making awards to support work conducted by researchers from across the globe and at various stages in their careers, bringing them together into an interdisciplinary community, and conducting research into the hard problems in artificial intelligence. [](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences.
org/) [](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences. org/) Exceptional people working on the key opportunities and hardest problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.
[](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences. org/) [](https://ai2050.
schmidtsciences. org/) How can AI shape a brighter future for all? From tailoring drug discovery to the genetic diversity of African populations to using AI for large-scale energy storage solutions, AI2050 Senior Fellow Dr. Kelly Chibale and AI2050 Early Career Fellow Dr. Gege Wen are advancing work to ensure AI benefits society by 2050.
Learn more in the video above. [](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences.
org/) Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society November 5, 2025 Community Perspective - Daniel Rock September 8, 2025 Community Perspective - Jacob Steinhardt August 18, 2025 Community Perspective - Gege Wen August 16, 2025 Schmidt Sciences awards $10 million for AI safety research February 18, 2025 MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows December 13, 2024 Schmidt Sciences Announces Its Newest Cohort Of 25 AI Fellows December 12, 2024 Community Perspective - Adji Bousso Dieng August 11, 2023 Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI announce Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and over $10 million for a new AI Safety Fund October 25, 2023 African Business: How we can create an environment for AI investments and partnerships in Africa March 21, 2024 Community Perspective - Anima Anandkumar October 31, 2024 Does One Large Model Rule Them All?
April 4, 2023 Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done July 5, 2023 MIT Technology Review: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI May 13, 2024 Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Schmidt: We need an AI equivalent of the IPCC October 19, 2023 [](https://ai2050. schmidtsciences. org/) [](https://ai2050.
schmidtsciences. org/) AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative of Schmidt Sciences, conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, that aims to support exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI. [](https://ai2050.
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