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 Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team, will devote resources to helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.

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.