Zuckerberg's charitable organization acquires startup

  • 7 years ago
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a charity founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, acquired its first startup. The organization released a statement saying that it had bought the Artificial Intelligence startup Meta. "We are excited to share that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has agreed to acquire Meta, a company that has developed an AI that helps scientists read, understand and prioritize millions of scientific papers," CZI's CTO Cori Bargmann said on a Facebook post. Meta is based in Toronto and uses artificial intelligence to browse through and read scientific papers, providing a summary of the information.