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Gates Foundation Launches Coalition to Build More Representative Language Data Sets for AI

The coalition includes 60 partners and aims to reach more than 3 billion people over five years, officials said.

  • On Monday, the Gates Foundation convened a 60-partner coalition including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI Foundation to expand artificial intelligence in underrepresented languages, targeting more than 3 billion people over five years.
  • Mozilla Data Collective CEO E.M. Lewis-Jong described training AI on internet-scraped data as an "original sin," noting systems built predominantly on Reddit fail to produce culturally diverse results.
  • Google's Project Vaani collects more than 150,000 hours of audio across every district in India to gather dialect data, while Anthropic's Elizabeth Kelly acknowledged the company's products "lag in many African languages in particular."
  • Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman said this work must continue "full speed ahead" despite some AI companies urging industry slowdown, emphasizing governments must regulate impacts while extending humanitarian applications to poor communities currently "shut out" from technology.
  • The foundation committed $1 billion toward AI-focused efforts to improve health outcomes, educational tools and small farmers' practices, with a secretariat tracking each partner's commitments as governance details are finalized.
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Bill Gates pushes for 'smart use' of AI as his foundation builds more representative language data

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates told his foundation's Goalkeepers gathering that “increased generosity” and “the smart use of AI” together could accelerate the fight against inequality, urging the world's richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence…

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Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI

NEW YORK (AP) — The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

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