Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic organization has bought Meta, a search engine that uses artificial intelligence to find scientific research papers. The acquisition will aid Zuckerberg’s goal of curing the world’s diseases by the end of the century, Meta cofounder Sam Molyneux said in a Facebook post on Monday. Zuckerberg founded The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with his wife Priscilla Chan in late 2015 as a vehicle to eventually give away the vast majority of his $52 billion fortune. In September, the couple announced that they were donating $3 billion to curing the world’s major diseases, including a $600 million research center in San Francisco called the Biohub. Meta will continue to operate and be made available as a free resource for the scientific community. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has invested in a few education startups to date, but Meta marks the organization’s first full acquisition. “Meta’s tools can dramatically accelerate scientific progress and move us closer to our goal: to support science and technology that will make it possible to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century,” Chan Zuckerberg’s president of science, Cori Bargmann, said in a statement. “Meta will help scientists learn from others’ discoveries in real time, find key papers that may have gone unnoticed, or even predict where their field is headed.”
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