Healthcare Solutions: Gates Foundation showers $5 million grants on innovators

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has announced the selection of 50 grant recipients who are developing global health and development solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) enabled large language models (LLMs).

Each recipient, including four from Nigeria according to the foundation, will receive up to US$100,000 each to advance their research project, for a total of US$5 million in grants.

According to an official statement Thursday, the recipients were selected as part of the organisation’s Grand Challenges Program, a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve pressing global health and development problems.