







The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity.
Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good - Humanity AI
Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good Pooled philanthropic fund […]

OpenAI finalises $10 billion joint venture with PE firms to deploy AI - The Economic Times
OpenAI has launched a new venture, The Deployment Company. It has secured over $4 billion from 19 investors. This company will focus on helping businesses integrate OpenAI's AI software. The venture is valued at $10 billion and will be controlled by OpenAI. This move aims to boost AI adoption across various sectors. Rival Anthropic is also exploring similar strategies.
Open Call for Proposals - Humanity AI
Open Call for Proposals: Communities Leading on AI $10M Investment in U.S.-Based Community-Led AI Initiatives Humanity AI, an initiative spearheaded […]

Built to benefit everyone: our plan
A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.

Announcing recipients of the Google.org AI Opportunity Fund: Europe
Google.org announced the 80 organizations that will receive funding and support from the AI Opportunity Fund: Europe to help 20,000 people learn AI skills.

OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push
OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into organizations that will then work closely with various teams to identify where AI can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

NSF and NVIDIA award Ai2 a combined $152M to support building a national level fully open AI ecosystem | Ai2
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.

Built to benefit everyone
OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools
A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.
OpenAI debuts a life sciences AI model, entering crowd of tech giants selling to pharma
OpenAI became the latest tech giant to launch a life sciences-focused AI offering, aiming to build a biopharma business.

Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI join forces to help create AI's missing trust layer
With 13 founding members, the all-new Appia Foundation wants to help make AI safety claims verifiable.

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch
OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.

How to think about AI company finances
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.

TechAccess: AI-Ready America
NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.
