Sam Altman-run OpenAI on Monday announced that it will be launching the “OpenAI Academy”, which will invest in developers and organisations leveraging AI to help solve hard problems and catalyse economic growth in their communities.
According to the company, the academy will ensure that the transformative potential of AI is accessible and beneficial to diverse communities globally, starting in low- and middle-income countries.
“Many countries have fast-growing technology sectors with talented developers and innovative organisations, but access to advanced training and technical resources remains limited. Investing in the development of local AI talent can fuel economic growth and innovation across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, education, and finance,” OpenAI said in a blogpost.
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This initiative is an extension of OpenAI’s ongoing support for AI developers and organisations working on the front lines. The company said that it will be sharing more details soon about how to access the Academy’s resources.
The OpenAI Academy programme will provide:
Training and Technical Guidance: Support from OpenAI experts for developers and mission-driven organisations leveraging AI.
API Credits: Distributing an initial $1 million in API credits to expand access to OpenAI models, enabling participants to build and deploy innovative applications.
Community Building: Fostering a global network of developers to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive collective innovation.
Contests and Incubators: Partnering with philanthropists to invest in organisations solving challenges at the front lines of their communities.
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This initiative builds on OpenAI’s long-standing support for AI developers and organizations working on the front lines, and we’ll be sharing more details soon about how to access the Academy’s resources.
Moreover, the ChatGPT maker mentioned that to further support developers globally, OpenAI also funded and published a professional translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark, a measure of general AI intelligence, into 14 languages – Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Yoruba.