The next big ideas from ‘Idea Man’ Paul Allen: A. I. and cell biology

September 30, 2013

But if you had to pick one philanthropic enterprise to be Allen’s jewel in the crown, that would be the brain science institute he founded 10 years ago: $400 million of his estimated $15.8 billion fortune has gone toward the Allen Institute’s open-source efforts to map the brain and the genes that influence its function. Those efforts helped inspire the Obama administration’s BRAIN Initiative. (NBC News)