Google commits 20 Million USD to empower scientists with AI-powered breakthroughs

Google is committing $20 million in cash and $2 million in cloud credits to a new funding initiative designed to help scientists and researchers unearth the next great scientific breakthroughs using artificial intelligence (AI), Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said.

The announcement via Google.org said it will help Google ingratiate itself with some of the leading scientific minds, through direct cash injections and by providing infrastructure to power their projects, sources reported.

The winning applicants should be using "AI to address increasingly complex problems at the intersections of different disciplines of science," according to a blog post from Maggie Johnson, Google VP and global head of Google.org.