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Alzheimer’s steals years. Gates is betting $1M that agentic AI can steal some back. Meanwhile, Meta is rearranging to chase superintelligence, Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman warns that AI pretending to feel can mislead people, and OpenAI is testing a low cost ChatGPT tier in India.
📌 In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Gates prize agentic hunt for Alzheimer’s
Meta splits teams toward superintelligence
Suleyman warns on seeming consciousness
ChatGPT Go launches in India
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🧠 Bill Gates Backs $1M AI Prize to Crack Alzheimer’s Disease
Bill Gates and his father, who died in 2020 of Alzheimer’s disease.Courtesy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Dan Lamont
Bill Gates is putting up $1M to accelerate Alzheimer’s research with artificial intelligence. The new global competition, announced by the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative, challenges teams to build agentic AI systems capable of scanning decades of dementia research and surfacing overlooked breakthroughs. For Gates, the effort is personal: his father died of Alzheimer’s in 2020.
Here’s what the prize involves:
The challenge: Build agentic AI that can reason across biological pathways, clinical trial data and diagnostic records to uncover overlooked patterns.
The reward: A $1M prize, with the winning system made freely available worldwide through the AD Data Initiative’s AD Workbench platform.
The backers: Gates Ventures is joined by partners across government, advocacy and science. Niranjan Bose of Gates Ventures calls it “an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.”
The potential: AI could move dementia research from reactive to predictive, identifying early biomarkers, optimizing trial design and even repurposing existing drugs.
More than a century of work led to only a handful of approved drugs, but organizers believe AI can speed the search for diagnostics and treatments. By offloading the search through vast datasets, agentic AI may uncover directions that humans alone would never reach. Semi-finalists will be named in December and finalists will compete next March in Copenhagen.
🧩 Meta Reshuffles AI in Pursuit of Superintelligence
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Meta is once again rearranging the furniture inside its AI division, this time splitting its freshly built unit into four distinct teams under new chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. The memo, reviewed by Bloomberg, frames the move as an acceleration toward “superintelligence,” with billions in recent talent spending now being reorganized for maximum output.
Why it matters for the AI community:
Infra dominance: A new team, MSL Infra, will pour resources into compute at scales startups can’t touch. This could widen the gap in training frontier models.
Product direction: Ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman now leads a team dedicated to turning research into usable consumer products, which means developers will see more Meta-powered tools in their workflows.
Open vs closed tension: With Llama at the center, questions remain about whether Meta keeps its models open or locks them down as superintelligence ambitions grow.
The changes dissolve the AGI foundations team, with its leaders reassigned to “strategic MSL initiatives.” For the AI community, this is more than mere corporate housekeeping. It clearly shows where Meta is focusing its efforts: creating top-tier AI models, conducting in-depth research and building a huge technical foundation.
🧠‘Seemingly Conscious AI’ Could Mislead Society, Microsoft Exec Says
Image: Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has a new warning: AI that acts conscious could be more dangerous than AI that simply scales intelligence. In an essay, he calls out “Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI)”, systems that mimic memory, emotions and subjective experience convincingly enough to trick users into believing they’re alive.
Key takeaways from Suleyman’s warning:
Current tech is enough: With today’s tools, it’s possible to design AI that feels sentient by stitching together memory, personality and voice.
AI psychosis is real: He cites rising cases of people forming delusional beliefs about AI, even defending its rights.
Model welfare is a trap: Suleyman says studying “AI rights” too soon could fuel these delusions, calling it premature and dangerous.
AI for people, not as people: He urges companies to resist branding AI as conscious and focus on usefulness, not simulation of personhood.
This puts Microsoft in sharp contrast with Anthropic, which openly studies model welfare and moral frameworks for AI. But with science still unable to define what consciousness even is, Suleyman’s stance feels like an attempt to shut down debate before it truly begins.
🤖 OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Go in India
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OpenAI has chosen India as the launchpad for ChatGPT Go, its new entry-level subscription. The plan is designed to capture the country’s massive base of ChatGPT users, offering faster responses, stronger memory, and expanded usage at a fraction of the cost of its other tiers.
Here’s what Go brings:
10x capacity for messages, image generation, and file uploads compared to the free version
Faster replies and more personalized outputs with improved memory
Local payments via UPI for easier access
Tiered ladder alongside Plus at ₹1,999 and Pro at ₹19,900
India is already OpenAI’s second-biggest market, with 29M downloads in just 90 days but relatively low revenue at $3.6M. By starting here, OpenAI is hoping that affordable access will turn downloads into paying subscribers, especially as Perplexity and Google push their own India-focused offers.
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