Anthropic and the Gates Foundation partner for $200M

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation partner on a $200M initiative to deploy Claude for global health, education, and economic mobility in developing nations.

Anthropic is committing $200 million over four years alongside the Gates Foundation, in the form of grants, Claude usage credits, and technical support. The partnership covers four priority areas: global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. It is led by the company's Beneficial Deployments team, responsible for non-commercial programs and AI-related public goods (e.g., datasets, evaluation benchmarks, discounted access for non-profit organizations).

The main component targets low- and middle-income countries, where 4.6 billion people remain deprived of essential health services. Anthropic plans to develop connectors, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks dedicated to medical uses, support health ministries on workforce management, supply chain, and epidemic detection, and support research on underfunded diseases, starting with polio, HPV (responsible for approximately 350,000 deaths annually, 90% of which occur in low-income countries), and pre-eclampsia. Joint work with the Institute for Disease Modeling will refine malaria and tuberculosis transmission models.

In education, K-12 tools are being co-developed for the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India, with a first set of open datasets and benchmarks planned within the year, as part of the Global AI for Learning Alliance. Economic mobility will leverage Claude improvements for agriculture, aimed at the two billion people who rely on small farms, and in the United States, will fund initiatives related to skill portability, career guidance, and impact measurement for reskilling programs.