# The University of the Witwatersrand’s Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery Institute has been awarded 17.6-million-rand in funding by Google.org. The institute, which was launched in November 2024, is home to some of Africa’s leading fundamental artificial intelligence researchers. It is led by professor Benjamin Rosman, who has been named in the ‘Thinkers’ category of TIME magazine’s TIME100 AI 2025 list. Wits says this financial support will boost the institute’s targeted capacity development and networking-building programmes.
Wits MIND Institute gets a R17.6-million boost from Google