Leveraging a Pipeline of Best-in-Class Innovators

Partner: General Motors

Since 2018, Solve and General Motors (GM) have partnered to support solutions that help create smart, safe, and sustainable communities around the world. 

Together, we have hosted Challenge Design workshops and Solveathon workshops with GM’s senior teams across the US to help design and promote Solve’s Global Challenges and the GM Prize. To date, GM has awarded funding to twelve Solver teams including: JusticeText, Air-Ink, Thaki, and Livox;.

In 2018, Solver Livox received the $25,000 General Motors Prize for Advanced Technologies to help them enable millions of non-verbal disabled people to communicate and learn. Through intelligent algorithms and machine learning, Livox adapts content for students with disabilities, whether they be verbal, motor, cognitive, or visual disorders. 

Since partnering, Livox and GM have worked to expand Livox’s technology by applying their intelligent algorithms to prevent distracted driving. Now, the artificial intelligence that created Livox can help save millions of lives from accidents caused by distracted driving. 

You can read more about how General Motors has partnered with cutting-edge Solver teams in Digital Trends or in this article by GM’s Hina Baloch.