New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative) has launched a global competition backed by Bill Gates and a coalition of partners offering a USD 1 million first prize to advance breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for Alzheimer's and related dementias research.

The competition will award a USD 1 million first-place prize to the team that develops the most innovative agentic AI solution--AI systems capable of independent planning, reasoning, and action--to accelerate breakthrough discoveries from existing Alzheimer's data.

The final AI tool will be made publicly available via the AD Data Initiative's AD Workbench, a free, secure, cloud-based research environment that empowers scientists...