C3.ai, Microsoft and others launch C3.ai DTI to combat COVID-19

Microsoft and AI software provider, C3.ai have partnered with a bunch of US-based universities including to form a research consortium that is focused on innovative efforts to advance the digital transformation of business, government, and society.

The consortium, which also includes educational institutes like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University to form the new C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, have established C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (DTI), will focus its research on AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data Analytics, human factors, organizational behavior, ethics, and public policy.

The first order of business for the consortium is to study the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak so that vaccines can be developed to combat the ongoing outbreak and future outbreaks can be predicted and prevented.