8 yrs @WHOSTP44, 7 yrs with @EricSchmidt, now leading @RenPhilanthropy. renaissancephilanthropy.org/
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Today, I was asked for any documents that explain "how your team got so much done" in Obama White House. I sent them this -> mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf…
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FINALLY
UPDATE: I’m launching a podcast called Tacit Knowledge.
My goal is to tackle something I think will remain scarce in the age of AI: working on hard problems where the next step is unclear.
Goal is to chat with my favorite doers. Feedback welcome. renaissancephilanthropy.subs…
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Looking forward to this!
UPDATE: I’m launching a podcast called Tacit Knowledge.
My goal is to tackle something I think will remain scarce in the age of AI: working on hard problems where the next step is unclear.
Goal is to chat with my favorite doers. Feedback welcome. renaissancephilanthropy.subs…
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UPDATE: I’m launching a podcast called Tacit Knowledge.
My goal is to tackle something I think will remain scarce in the age of AI: working on hard problems where the next step is unclear.
Goal is to chat with my favorite doers. Feedback welcome. renaissancephilanthropy.subs…
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I’m excited about the potential of tech, innovation, and partnerships to build childcare supply, and we have recruited a great leader in @skmasur to explore what’s possible.
We're delighted to welcome Shelly Masur @skmasur as a Fellow at @RenPhilanthropy, where she will be scoping a fund to build the supply of care that strengthens local economies and meets community needs, working through innovators, researchers, and communities.
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Savannization, and tipping points generally, are too neglected. Great new $35M fund!
UPDATE: If we lose the Amazon to fire, we won’t get it back.
That’s why we have assembled a great team to bet on the new technologies and ideas to tackle this wicked problem.
My huge thanks to @MooreFound and @PackardFdn for partnering with us on this critical work.
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UPDATE: If we lose the Amazon to fire, we won’t get it back.
That’s why we have assembled a great team to bet on the new technologies and ideas to tackle this wicked problem.
My huge thanks to @MooreFound and @PackardFdn for partnering with us on this critical work.
Today we’re excited to launch the South America Fire Fund, a new philanthropic effort to stop destructive fire across the region.
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NEW: We’ve written in the past about the role philanthropy can play in market-shaping.
That’s our goal with Aggregate: to build coordinated global demand for low-carbon cement and concrete.
Excited to see what we learn, and share as we go.
We are excited to launch Aggregate, a new time-bound philanthropic fund to build critical mass for clean cement, making low-carbon cement and concrete commercially viable at scale by clearing the barriers that stall market adoption.
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Kudos to @rtk254. As AI floods the pipes of existing channels of scientific coordination (journals, conferences, etc), we will need experimentation on new forms of sense-making and knowledge-building.
The African proverb "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” sums up the challenges facing science in the age of AI
But w/intentional design of new coordination infrastructure, maybe we can move *far, fast and together*?
Introducing MOSAIC 🧵
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Huge thanks to @xtxmarkets CEO Alex Gerko for his transformative philanthropy in AI for Math, and all of his support for the @RenPhilanthropy AI for Math Fund, the Mathlib Initiative, the @leanprover FRO, and SAIR! Check out the details at xtxmarkets.com/news/2026-upd…
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I remember when @RuxandraTeslo first started working on this project. Awesome to see it gain momentum. ctdcommons.org/
CTD Commons will preserve and publish regulatory knowledge from failed drug development programs so future teams can learn from precedent that is usually locked away, to help uncover effective treatments for patients faster.
A CTD, or Common Technical Document, is a document that compiles the full journey of an investigational drug – everything from animal toxicology, manufacturing details, and, perhaps most usefully, correspondence with the FDA. Yet only a small fraction of that work appears in published papers.
CTD Commons will test the possibility of acquiring CTDs from failed or shelved drug programs, and make them openly available for research and analysis, for everyone to use.
@antonioregalado wrote about the project, and @RuxandraTeslo's essay on the topic, here: x.lingyaoai.com/antonioregalado/status…
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Excellent work by all involved.
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🙌 🙌 So excited for what's to come! The sky's the limit with @jenniferdoleac leading this effort.
We’re delighted to today announce @jenniferdoleac as a Fellow at @RenPhilanthropy, where she will be scoping a fund to dramatically reduce crime and violence around the world.
Crime and violence causes trillions of dollars’ worth of damage every year in the U.S - and globally - yet the system built to control the problem is strikingly ineffective.
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UPDATE: Excited to share early insights from our AI Talent Accelerator.
Our goal is to uplevel ten great education orgs on their use of AI by giving them access to our engineering talent - and create a playbook for the field.
My thanks to our donor partners for their support.
The AI Talent Accelerator is a field experiment aimed at boosting AI capabilities within mission-driven organizations through individualized technical guidance.
The pilot cycle is now underway. See what we’ve learned so far: renaissancephilanthropy.org/…
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I think @jenniferdoleac is generational talent. Really excited to build with her.
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Excellent area for philanthropic impact.
The OpenAI Foundation is investing $60M to help bring AI-powered weather and crop disease forecasts to 100 million smallholder farmers across South and Southeast Asia and East Africa over the next three years.
As climate change makes weather more volatile and extreme, farmers with little to fall back on if a harvest fails need timely, reliable forecasts to make critical decisions about when to plant, harvest and protect their crops.
Advances in AI are making high-quality weather forecasts more affordable, localized and accessible.
Through our Civil Society & Philanthropy team, we’re supporting @UChicago, @UCBerkeley, Precision Development, AIM for Scale, @digitalgreenorg and @CIMMYT who will work alongside governments and local institutions to turn these advances into useful, actionable guidance for farmers.
Learn more: openaifoundation.org/news/ai…
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NEW: Next round of our learning Tools Competition launches tomorrow.
We focus on three ideas: tech that our children use is grounded in learning science, has infrastructure for continuous improvement, and leverages technical advances towards the hardest challenges in education.
What’s next for AI in learning?
Join @RenPhilanthropy President @KumarAGarg tomorrow, Sept. 10, for the #ToolsCompetition launch to explore emerging technologies and new approaches shaping the future of learning.
Register now: tools-competition.org/
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Glad Sarah is taking this on. We need a clear and credible R&D roadmap on this topic.
We’re excited to welcome Dr. @Sarah_I_Daniels as a Fellow at @RenPhilanthropy where she will continue her work on decoding the harmful effects of pollutant exposures to identify new addressable targets against common chronic diseases.
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@AkhilBansalsa is joining @RenPhilanthropy as a Fellow to launch an Advance Market Commitment for diagnostics for neonatal sepsis, which is responsible for the death of a newborn every 45 seconds. I hope that more philanthropists will consider supporting this initiative.
We're excited to welcome Dr. Akhil Bansal as a @RenPhilanthropy Fellow. He'll be seeking to implement a fund focused on better diagnostics for neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries.
A practicing @NHS doctor and global health expert, Akhil is a Policy Fellow at @CGDev.
Working on global health or market-shaping approaches? Get in touch at info@renphil.org.
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