Teams turn to AI to tackle the spread of Covid: What started as a $500,000 pandemic response challenge from XPrize has become a global effort to fight Covid — and now all governments and health officials are set to benefit

Since its launch 25 years ago, the XPrize has become synonymous with ‘moonshot’ contests. Contests designed to crowdsource technological solutions to Earth's most complex and huge-scale problems — deforestation, illiteracy, climate change. All with multi-million dollar incentives.