Openai launch a $ 50 million grant program to help finance academic research

Openai announced on Monday about the consortium, Nextgenai, focused on supporting research that has been helped artificial intelligence at the best universities.

The company said that NextGenai, which includes their 15 founding academic partners from Harvard, Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be funded at $ 50 million in research grants, financing account, and API from Openai. Students, teachers and researchers will be qualified to receive prizes, which will be disposed of in the next few months.

“This initiative is designed not only to provide the next generation of discoveries, but also to prepare the next generation to form the future of artificial intelligence,” Openai wrote in a blog post. “When we learn from this initiative, we will explore opportunities to expand its access and impact.”

NextGinai, which determines Openai, comes an extensive commitment to education, after the launch of the ChatGPT EDU for universities last May, at a time fraught with risks to grant AI research in the United States in recent weeks, and the Trump administration has had a Trump administration It is said A number of employees of the National Science Corporation who were chosen for their experience in artificial intelligence, threatening the agency’s ability to maintain the main AI’s work.

Nextgenai can help enhance important research. However, Openai is not exactly a neutral party in the artificial intelligence race. It is assumed that the startup company hopes that researchers, faculty and students are accustomed to artificial intelligence tools at the expense of tools from competitors, including open source alternatives.