$1M AI prize backed by Bill Gates to transform Alzheimer's research

The Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative) has launched a global competition backed by Bill Gates and a coalition of partners offering a USD 1 million first prize to advance breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for Alzheimer's and related dementias research.

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The competition will award a USD 1 million first-place prize to the team that develops the most innovative agentic AI solution--AI systems capable of independent planning, reasoning, and action--to accelerate breakthrough discoveries from existing Alzheimer's data.

The final AI tool will be made publicly available via the AD Data Initiative's AD Workbench, a free, secure, cloud-based research environment that empowers scientists around the world to share, access and analyze data across platforms.

With an estimated 152 million people projected to live with Alzheimer's disease by 2050, the Alzheimer's Insights AI Prize addresses a critical need to accelerate research timelines.

Alzheimer's research faces significant challenges due to the complexity of the disease, which involves multiple biological pathways and may have different underlying causes in patients.

It has taken over a century for the first disease-modifying drugs to hit the market and the first simple blood-based diagnostic to be approved by the US FDA.