AI is poised to help with today's greatest global challenges
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Microsoft commits $250 million over five years to AI for Earth grants and cloud credits supporting agriculture, water, climate and biodiversity; over 100 grantees in 20+ countries sign up within months. Concrete projects include FarmBeats, which mixes drones, IoT and an algorithm that uses wind-aware flight paths to extend 30–35 minute drone battery life for crop yield mapping, and Project Premonition, which deploys 64‑slot mosquito traps with wing‑beat classifiers and a genomics pipeline to detect pathogens before outbreaks. A Geo-enabled Data Science VM with ArcGIS and land‑cover tutorials is available for grantees.
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