OpenAI Provides $1 Million in Free Credits for AI Development in emerging markets

OpenAI, a company founded by ChatGPT, is starting a program to make AI creation easier for people all over the world.

The OpenAI Academy will help developers and mission-driven groups in low- and middle-income countries use AI technologies by giving them free API credits and support from experts.

Users of the OpenAI Academy will get an initial $1 million in API credits, which will let them use OpenAI’s huge library of models, including the new o1 with improved logic.

OpenAI said in a statement that investing in the growth of local AI talent can boost economic growth and new ideas in fields such as banking, healthcare, agriculture, and education.

There will also be OpenAI experts on hand to help people. The company wants to “drive collective innovation” by building and supporting a global network of developers.

The Academy will also try to work with generous people to fund tournaments and incubator programs that help groups that want to solve problems in their own communities.

The startup backed by Microsoft said that helping people who know about the specific cultures, economies, and social dynamics of their towns will help make sure that AI apps are tailored to meet local needs. AI developers and organizations are very important for making the technology more available so that everyone in the world, no matter where they live or what language they speak, can use it to answer hard problems.

The ChatGPT developer’s newest project to reach out to people is the start of the OpenAI Academy. In May, it started a project to make its AI tools easier for nonprofits to use. It also made an education-focused version of ChatGPT so that kids could use the chatbot safely.

In the past, OpenAI also released the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) measure, a tool that has since become standard in the industry for testing the basic intelligence of AI models.