$2M Alzheimer’s AI Prize Awarded in Copenhagen

The Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (ADDI) announced two winners of its Insights AI Prize in Copenhagen ^[1]. Originally a $1 million competition, the organization doubled the award to $2 million to recognize two standout platforms ^[2]. Team Biomni-AD and Team Prima Mente shared the top honors for their "agentic AI" co-scientist tools ^[3]. These platforms aim to accelerate research into neurodegenerative diseases by automating data analysis and hypothesis generation ^[1][2]. The award highlights the growing role of artificial intelligence in finding clinical breakthroughs ^[3]. ADDI emphasized that these tools could drastically reduce the time needed to process complex biological datasets ^[1].