IBL News | New York
OpenAI announced the launch of its Academy, an initiative for developers and organizations in low—and middle-income countries.
OpenAI plans to provide them with AI technology, API credits, and guidance to help “drive collective innovation.”
The company said, “Investing in the development of local AI talent can fuel economic growth and innovation across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, education, and finance.“
The OpenAI Academy will distribute an initial $1 million in API credits to expand access to OpenAI models, enabling participants to build and deploy innovative applications.
It will partner with philanthropists “to invest in organizations solving challenges at the front lines of their communities.”
“Over the past year, we’ve seen first-hand that investing in AI education, resources, and community-building can have an outsized impact. For example, KOBI, the winner of the OpenAI prize at The Tools Competition, uses AI to help students with dyslexia learn to read. I-Stem, one of the turn.io Chat for Impact contest winners, uses AI to enhance access to inaccessible content designed to help blind and low-vision communities in India find meaningful employment.”
“To further support developers around the world, 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.”
