¶ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an American philanthropic organization led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.
¶ History
In January 2017, CZI acquired a Toronto-based artificial intelligence company called Meta, which functioned as a search engine for scientific literature.[1][2]
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was a founding sponsor of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Toronto's MaRS Discovery District in March 2017.[3]
¶ COVID-19
On October 28, 2021, CZI announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022.[4]
CZI awarded a $200,000 grant to McMaster University to explore using “Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens.” The grant was co-administered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.[5]
¶ External links
Siu, A. (2017, January 25). Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes first buy, a Canadian artificial intelligence startup. San Francisco Business Times. http://archive.today/2023.07.05-230826/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/25/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-meta-ai.html ↩︎
Elizabeth Caley. Creative Destruction Lab. Retrieved February 27, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.22-190753/https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/mentors/elizabeth-caley/ ↩︎
Williams, K. (2017, March 30). News release: New Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Launched in Toronto. Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705224908/https://vectorinstitute.ai/press-release-new-artificial-intelligence-research-institute-launched-in-toronto/ ↩︎
Chan Zuckerberg Science Initiative. (2021, October 28). Meta Transition. Medium. https://web.archive.org/web/20211217022923/https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475 ↩︎
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Global Grand Challenges, Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing to Detect, Identify, and Characterize Pathogens. Research & Innovation. (2021, November 19). McMaster University. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://archive.ph/UBq5b ↩︎