OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit; its mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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AI should work for people in their own language and voice.
The OpenAI Foundation is joining the @GatesFoundation and partners around the world to help make that possible.
We’re starting with voice, building the data and infrastructure needed to make AI more useful across a broader range of languages.
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Today we’re excited to launch Public Data for Health, with more than $125M in initial grants to nonprofits and universities creating and opening up high-quality scientific datasets.
AI is getting dramatically better at analyzing biology, but accelerating medical discovery depends on researchers having high-quality data to work with.
Our goal is to make more valuable scientific data broadly available so researchers can build on each other’s work and accelerate discoveries that help prevent and treat disease.
Learn more: openaifoundation.org/news/pu…
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The OpenAI Foundation is investing $60M to help bring AI-powered weather and crop disease forecasts to 100 million smallholder farmers across South and Southeast Asia and East Africa over the next three years.
As climate change makes weather more volatile and extreme, farmers with little to fall back on if a harvest fails need timely, reliable forecasts to make critical decisions about when to plant, harvest and protect their crops.
Advances in AI are making high-quality weather forecasts more affordable, localized and accessible.
Through our Civil Society & Philanthropy team, we’re supporting @UChicago, @UCBerkeley, Precision Development, AIM for Scale, @digitalgreenorg and @CIMMYT who will work alongside governments and local institutions to turn these advances into useful, actionable guidance for farmers.
Learn more: openaifoundation.org/news/ai…
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Paul Christiano, founder of the Alignment Research Center, is joining the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, which provides governance over the safety and security practices across OpenAI.
As AI capabilities advance, strong safety, security, alignment, and governance matter more than ever. Paul’s work on AI alignment and his years at @NIST will strengthen the Foundation’s oversight, bringing an independent voice to challenge assumptions, assess safeguards, and reinforce accountability around critical decisions.
Paul will also serve as a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board.
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The OpenAI Foundation is hiring people to help turn AI’s capabilities into benefits people can feel.
Doing that takes more than advances in AI itself. It takes new scientific infrastructure, stronger institutions, and organizations that can turn new capabilities into real-world impact.
We’re hiring talented and passionate people to help us advance our mission: openaifoundation.org/news/co…
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We’re looking for scientists who want discoveries to matter in people’s lives. Grantmakers who spot important work before it’s obvious. Operators who can turn ambitious ideas into action. And expertise from fields we don’t yet know we need.
This is a rare chance to join the OpenAI Foundation at an early stage, with the resources to take on work at this scale.
Come help shape what the Foundation does next. openaifoundation.org/careers
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Not looking for a job, but have a view on what we should work on? Tell us here: ats.rippling.com/openai-foun…
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The OpenAI Foundation is launching AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, community organizations, and other trusted partners put advanced AI to work on urgent challenges, develop practical solutions and scale what works.
The first effort is a $100 million commitment with Common Health Coalition to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-through to help care teams use AI to reach more patients with proven treatments - starting with the goal of doubling hepatitis C cure rates in Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, and Massachusetts. Breakthroughs to Follow-through will work to identify patients who have fallen out of care, synthesize records, track progress, and focus limited staff time where it can have the greatest impact.
The OpenAI Foundation wants to empower those who are closest to issues and to put AI to work where it can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
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The OpenAI Foundation is proud to announce a grant to the @childmindinst to study AI's impact on youth mental health.
The Foundation's mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, and that commitment extends to future generations.
With this grant, the Child Mind Institute will build on their existing work and research in order to help inform the creation of better AI systems for children in the future.
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David Vélez, founder and Global CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, Chairman and CEO of BNY, are joining the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC.
They bring deep experience in technology, finance, and expanding economic opportunity globally.
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One week left to apply to the 2026 People-First AI Fund.
Learn more about what we're looking for, eligibility criteria, and how to apply. Applications close July 15.
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The OpenAI Foundation is joining Intercept as a founding partner through our AI resilience program.
As AI accelerates advances in biology and medicine, we also need to prepare for the risks of misuse, including the potential for engineered outbreaks.
Intercept Health Fund is working to end respiratory pandemics through a pathogen-agnostic approach, investing in broad-spectrum preventatives and non-pharmaceutical interventions that can protect against a wide range of threats and strengthen a new layer of resilience for humanity.
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The OpenAI Foundation is proud to be founding partner of @raiseus_ai, a new national nonprofit bringing together governors, companies, educators, and philanthropies to help American workers train, transition, and thrive in an AI economy.
Learn more at raiseus.ai
Today, we're launching RAISE US. America has a technology strategy for AI. It doesn't have a people strategy yet. We're here to build one.
RAISE US is co-chaired by @GinaRaimondo and Eric Holcomb. We're working with governors, employers, and educators to help workers train, transition, and thrive.
This works because the people building AI and the people most affected by it are at the same table. Read more: raiseus.ai #RAISEUS
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Today, the OpenAI Foundation is committing $50M to the 2026 People-First AI Fund to fund trusted, community-based nonprofits exploring how AI can expand access and opportunity across essential services, arts and culture, and media and journalism.
Applications are now open through July 15. Learn more about what we’re looking for, eligibility criteria, and how to apply: openaifoundation.org/news/20…
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We’re completing our initial commitment to the People-First AI Fund with $9.5M in grants to organizations like @Dollarfor_ and @caremessage using AI to drive impact in areas rooted in people-first values.
The OpenAI Foundation is re-opening applications to the People-First AI Fund on June 15 – with a new $50 million commitment and updated focus areas.
We will share more then.
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AI is advancing quickly. Society’s ability to manage its risks must advance just as fast.
Today we’re sharing our vision for AI Resilience, with more than $130M in initial grants underway across bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and AI’s impact on young people: openaifoundation.org/news/re…
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Every general-purpose technology was risky before it was infrastructure.
Fire burned cities to the ground. Electricity electrocuted workers and cities considered abandoning the technology.
But we didn't: Instead, we invested in safeguards and built ecosystems that made it so anyone, anywhere could use them.
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AI resilience aims to ensure the same is true for AI: that a technology so powerful can, in the future, be as safe as flipping a light switch.
This work requires the combined effort of many people and organizations.
We’ve already begun funding them, and will be investing much more in the coming months.
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