Articles about AI for Earth

As coronavirus consumes world, Microsoft unveils biodiversity initiative to address challenges that will outlast COVID-19

Microsoft today announced a new environmental initiative focused on biodiversity, seeking to address the growing but often overlooked threat of… Read More

Microsoft commits $40M over 5 years to AI for Humanitarian Action initiative

Microsoft is investing in a new program employing its vast artificial intelligence resources to deal with humanitarian crisis. Set against… Read More

Microsoft says AI is finally ready for broader use to help solve Earth’s environmental woes

REDMOND, Wash. — Lucas Joppa agrees we’re living in the Information Age. But he wishes that the present tech era… Read More

Microsoft commits $25M over 5 years for new ‘AI for Accessibility’ initiative to help people with disabilities

Microsoft is committing $25 million over five years to develop artificial intelligence-powered technologies to help people with disabilities. The aim… Read More

Creative uses of technology help conservationists save tigers, wolverines and other vanishing species

When people began panicking about vanishing wild tigers in the early 1990s, the Indian government tried to count them by… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on its ‘AI for Earth’ initiative, pledging $50M at Paris climate event

Microsoft today pledged $50 million over five years for an initiative to use artificial intelligence to tackle the world’s most… Read More