Google and Idris Elba to Fund AI Tools for 100,000 African Creators in $1 Million Initiative

Alphabet’s Google and UK actor Idris Elba will fund access to artificial intelligence tools for African creators, aiming to help them produce high-quality content faster and more cheaply. The actor’s Elba Hope Foundation and Google will pay for access to Google’s flagship Gemini AI assistant and other digital products for about 100,000 creators in Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Sierra Leone, to the value of about $1 million, Google Senior Vice President for Research and Technology James