OpenAI Blog
Aug 28, 2025
Supporting nonprofit and community innovation
OpenAI launches a $50M People-First AI Fund to help U. S.
Democratic inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc. , is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
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Introducing OpenAI
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.