AI in Action | April 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help us solve the greatest challenges of our time from health care, agriculture, and education to transportation, energy, and national security.
When guided by ethics, transparency, and fairness, responsible AI can spark creativity and help usher in a more prosperous and sustainable future.
See how AI is improving our lives, growing our economy, and keeping us safe.
AI in Action
Waymo will be ready to serve riders in Washington, D.C. in 2026
Waymo is expanding its autonomous ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to Washington, D.C., aiming to launch by 2026 as part of its broader national rollout. Leveraging its experience and safety data, Waymo is working to bring reliable, AI-powered mobility to the nation’s capital and beyond. AI is revolutionizing mobility and fueling innovations like autonomous vehicles that are making transportation safer, more efficient, and more accessible. Waymo is taking steps to ensure the smooth integration of autonomous vehicles in local communities by working with community members, first responders, and local government officials.
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Google is using AI to create smarter electric grids
Google announced its biggest step yet in using AI to create smarter and more reliable electric grids. Google is collaborating with PJM Interconnection, the largest power grid operator in North America, and Alphabet’s Tapestry to implement AI-driven solutions aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the electric grid. Tapestry, powered by Google Cloud and Google DeepMind, will build on its core technology and develop a new set of AI tools and models to intelligently manage and optimize interconnecting power generation to the PJM electric grid. The technology will help PJM connect energy sources to its grid much faster, with the goal of making electricity more reliable and affordable for the 67 million people PJM serves.
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Earth AI’s platform is supercharging the speed and accuracy of critical mineral discovery
As the clean energy economy expands, finding the minerals and metals that power it becomes increasingly critical. Earth AI has developed proprietary drilling technology and an AI-powered mineral discovery platform that analyzes mining data to find critical minerals faster and at a much lower cost. Traditional methods of mineral discovery are expensive, time-consuming, and have low success rates. Earth AI’s platform leverages predictive, high-accuracy AI technology that has been extensively trained using remote sensing and geophysical datasets to predict the location of minerals. The platform is also trained on exploration datasets that go back 50 years, allowing it to learn from the successes and failures of past geologists. In 2023, a total of $12.8 billion was spent on mining exploration efforts, which yielded 45 discoveries. In comparison, Earth AI spent $2.1 million and made three discoveries. The company recently discovered one of the largest verified palladium deposits in Australia using AI.
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How AI is using facial recognition to help bring lost pets home
Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being
How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
AI Spotlight
Cohere launched Command A, a new state-of-the-art generative model optimized for enterprises that require fast, secure, and high-quality AI. Built for maximizing performance while minimizing compute, Command A is capable of running on fewer chips than comparative LLMs, providing a more cost-effective and efficient solution for companies. This means that tool use, AI agents, retrieval augmented generation, multilingual use cases, and overall interactivity will have enhanced performance and usability. In private deployments, Command A can run across two graphics processing units, Nvidia’s A100 or H100, while competing models can take up to 32. This size and cost differential is particularly important for companies in industries that involve sensitive data, such as healthcare and finance, and require their AI models to be deployed internally.
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About AI for America
AI for America is an initiative to educate the public about how AI is being used to improve lives, grow our economy, and keep us safe. The initiative combines coalition building, advocacy, social media, and traditional media to demonstrate the immense economic and societal benefits of AI. AI for America is funded by TechNet, the national, bipartisan network of innovation economy CEOs and senior executives. TechNet advances public policies at the federal and state level that make the United States the world leader in innovation. Its diverse membership includes dynamic American businesses ranging from startups to the most iconic companies on the planet. For more information, go to technet.org and AI4America.com.