OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has announced the launch of OpenAI Academy, a new initiative that will fuel innovation by investing in developers and organizations leveraging AI, starting in low and middle-income countries.
The Academy will ensure that the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence is accessible and beneficial to diverse communities worldwide. It will empower local developers and mission-driven organizations to address challenges within their communities.
By providing access to advanced AI technologies, the initiative aims to enhance efforts in sectors critical to sustainable development, such as healthcare, education, and agriculture. Despite the rapid growth of tech sectors in emerging markets, access to advanced training and resources remains unlimited. The OpenAI Academy aims to close this gap by investing in local talent and infrastructure, potentially driving significant economic advancements.
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The Academy program will provide the following;
• Training and Technical Guidance: Support from OpenAl experts for developers and mission-driven organizations leveraging Al.
• API Credits: Distributing an initial $1 million in API credits to expand access to OpenAl 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 inorganizations solving challenges at the front lines of their communities.
OpenAI is building on its long-standing support for AI developers and organizations tackling global challenges with the launch of OpenAI academy. Previous successes highlight its potential impact, which saw the winner of the OpenAI prize at The Tools Competition, KOBI, which developed Al tools to assist students with dyslexia, and I-Stem, which improved access to educational resources for visually impaired individuals in India.
Notably, OpenAI has also provided API credits and technical support to these and many other organizations working on transformative projects across the globe. In addition to launching the Academy, OpenAl has taken steps to make Al’s knowledge more accessible by translating key benchmarks into multiple languages, including Yoruba and Swahili, ensuring Al technologies are relevant and effective in diverse cultural and economic contexts.
To further empower developers worldwide, OpenAl also funded and published a professional translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark into 14 languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Yoruba. The MMLU benchmark, which measures general Al intelligence is now accessible to a more diverse audience.
By supporting developers and organizations that understand the unique cultures, economies, and social dynamics of their communities, OpenAl ensures that Al applications are better tailored to meet local needs. These innovators are key to making Al accessible and empowering people across the globe regardless of their location or language to leverage technology to solve complex problems.