Anonymous23 days ago
A new nonprofit called Radial, backed by at least $500 million from crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb and scientist Seemay Chou's Astera Institute, is launching to build the "unglamorous" data infrastructure that science needs to fully leverage artificial intelligence. The initiative joins a broader wave of philanthropic investment exceeding $1.5 billion — including HHMI's AI@HHMI and the Paul Allen-backed Fund for Science and Technology — arriving as federal science funding faces unprecedented proposed cuts of up to 57 percent at the NSF and 42 percent at the NIH.