Simons Foundation Teams Up With Anthropic and OpenAI on a $15M Push to Help Mathematicians Navigate AI
Simons Foundation Launches $15M Effort to Help Mathematicians Navigate AI Era
The Simons Foundation is committing $15 million in combined funding and resources with Anthropic and OpenAI to help the mathematics community adapt to AI. The initiative includes an open call for proposals, workshops, and AI tools and computing resources for researchers, extending beyond mathematics into basic science. The foundation, an early backer of the Lean proof assistant, wants mathematicians themselves to shape how these tools are evaluated and adopted.
The community should be driving discussions of how these tools are evaluated, adopted and used, not any single company or institution.