The family fund of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is providing a grant to the Montreal-based non-profit to help it develop new benchmarks and algorithms. LawZero did not disclose the amount it will receive, but said it has now raised more than US$35 million, up from US$30 million at its launch in June. (The Logic)
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The family fund of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is providing a grant to the Montreal-based non-profit to help it develop new benchmarks and algorithms. LawZero did not disclose the amount it will receive, but said it has now raised more than US$35 million, up from US$30 million at its launch in June. (The Logic)
Talking point: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio set up the lab to build Scientist AI, a new kind of system that has neither memory nor goals—unlike the agentic AI most tech firms are trying to create. It’s designed to be a check on those commercial models that may lack the same safeguards. LawZero will use the new grant to help develop Scientist AI. Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman has said the organization will use AI to help achieve its goals of reducing poverty and improving health outcomes, but that it wants to involve low-income countries in the design of the technology.
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