Microsoft launches Elevate, a $4 billion global program to train 20 million people in AI skills, expanding education access through schools, nonprofits, and labor groups.

Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.

Microsoft plans to donate $4 billion worth of cash, technology and training to enhance artificial intelligence education, a substantial bequest as the Redmond software giant aims to make billions more off a technology it expects to be on par with the introduction of electricity.