Bill Gates and OpenAI back $50mn AI rollout in African health clinics
Gates Foundation partners with tech group to ease impact of chronic staff shortages in Rwanda and other countries
Gates Foundation partners with tech group to ease impact of chronic staff shortages in Rwanda and other countries

New competition is latest effort to deploy artificial intelligence to find cures for serious illnesses

Partnership will support huge build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence

AI start-up turns to three of its biggest suppliers in blockbuster $100bn funding round

AI start-up commits to buying $30bn in computing capacity from Microsoft in data centres powered by Nvidia chips

Global health aid is set to fall more than a quarter this year as rich countries reduce funding

The agreements will take the cost of the high-profile data centre initiative to $400bn