2024 Look Back - Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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This is a philanthropic year-in-review from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, tangentially relevant to AI safety through CZI's funding of AI-for-science tools; not a primary AI safety resource.

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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's annual retrospective highlights its philanthropic and scientific investments in 2024, covering areas such as biomedical research, education, and AI-driven tools for science. It showcases how CZI leverages technology including AI to accelerate human health and learning outcomes.

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•CZI reflects on 2024 progress across its core focus areas: science, education, and community justice initiatives.
•AI and machine learning tools featured prominently in CZI-funded biomedical and scientific research efforts.
•CZI highlights collaborative partnerships with researchers and institutions to advance open science and data sharing.
•The review underscores CZI's philanthropic model of combining technology investment with long-term societal impact goals.

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2024 Look Back: How AI Shaped a Year of Impact - CZI Blog 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
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 Dec 12, 2024 &middot; 
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 2024 in Review: How AI Shaped a Year of Impact at CZI

 Explore how advances in AI are transforming biomedical research and enhancing education tools alongside our efforts to support communities and drive progress across our work.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Advances in AI shaped a year of impact at CZI — driving efforts to build AI-powered virtual cell models and enabling tools to help educators unlock student potential. 
 
 

 
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 J oin us as we look back on 2024. We’re excited by the advancements we’ve made in uniting AI and biomedical research to build towards AI-powered virtual cell models, our work in education to help educators bring learning science to life in classrooms, the impact of our scientific institutes, and the collaborations that shape our work — all driven by a shared commitment to building a better future for everyone.

 Leveraging AI To Accelerate Our Work

 As advances in AI continue to revolutionize scientific discovery, CZI’s work over the years has positioned us to integrate it as a core part of our efforts, driving progress toward our goal of harnessing technology to unlock the mysteries of the cell.

 There are a lot of unknowns about the smallest unit of life — the cell — which is why scientists have limited understanding of how cells, tissues and organs become diseased and what it takes for them to be healthy. AI offers unprecedented opportunities to change that.

 To support the scientists on the frontlines of this research, CZI built one of the world’s largest computing systems for nonprofit life sciences research to enable AI for biology at scale. CZI is the only philanthropic organization that is funding and building a computing system of this kind for the scientific community to build AI-powered virtual cell models — digital tools trained on vast biological datasets. These tools will help researchers explore how cells respond to different conditions. Imagine asking a virtual cell model, “What happens if I change the expression of this one gene?” and getting instant predictions of cellular responses.

 We’re also opening applications for researchers to use our computing to develop models that cannot be created with conventional university resources. Applying AI to biology has already accelerated many research processes , paving the way for discoveries that can lead to groundbreaking treatments and therapies and, ultimately, CZI’s aim to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century.

 While much work remains ahead, this effort is already laying the foundation for predictive models of cells and cell systems that could unlock major advancements in science and medicine. Thes

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