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OpenAI and the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program

OpenAI and the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program

OpenAI Blog
6d ago

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program by providing $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support. This investment enhances the program’s resources and capabilities, allowing it to support more participants and projects. The partnership underscores OpenAI’s commitment to fostering AI research and collaboration through the Lenfest Institute.

OpenAI Blog
Dec 17, 2025

Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations

OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a new learning hub built with the American Journalism Project and The Lenfest Institute to help newsrooms use AI effectively. The Academy offers training, practical use cases, and responsible-use guidance to support journalists, editors, and publishers as they adopt AI in their reporting and operations.

OpenAI Blog
Dec 11, 2025

Ten years

OpenAI reflects on ten years of progress, from early research breakthroughs to widely used AI systems that reshaped what’s possible. We share lessons from the past decade and why we remain optimistic about building AGI that benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI Blog
May 30, 2018

OpenAI Fellows Fall 2018

We’re now accepting applications for the next cohort of OpenAI Fellows, a program which offers a compensated 6-month apprenticeship in AI research at OpenAI.

OpenAI Blog
Sep 21

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is collaborating with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. The group’s role is to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results. This partnership aims to ensure rigorous oversight and clear dissemination of new developments in AI.

OpenAI Blog
Jan 30, 2017

Team update

The OpenAI team is now 45 people. Together, we’re pushing the frontier of AI capabilities—whether by validating novel ideas, creating new software systems, or deploying machine learning on robots.

OpenAI Blog
May 17, 2019

OpenAI Fellows Fall 2018: Final projects

Our second class of OpenAI Fellows has wrapped up, with each Fellow going from a machine learning beginner to core OpenAI contributor in the course of a 6-month apprenticeship. We are currently reviewing applications on a rolling basis for our next round of OpenAI Fellows Summer 2019.