OpenAI has launched an academy to foster innovative spirits in developers and organizations leveraging AI. This initiative, OpenAI Academy Program, is open to low and middle-income countries.
New OpenAI Academy To Fuel Innovation
According to the AI company, the Academy will ensure that the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence is accessible and beneficial to diverse communities worldwide.
It will also empower local developers and mission-driven organizations to address challenges within their communities.
The major goal of the initiative is to invest in local AI talent that can fuel economic growth and innovation across sectors. Tailored specifically for local needs, OpenAI wants its AI applications to be contextual to the particular economy and culture.
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What The Academy Will Provide
The OpenAI Academy program will provide support, relevant partnership, knowledge, accessibility to OpenAI models, and growth.
- Training and Technical Guidance: Support from OpenAI experts for developers and mission-driven organizations leveraging AI.
- API Credits: Distributing an initial $1 million in API credits to expand access to OpenAI models, enabling participants to build and deploy innovative applications.
- Community Building: Fostering a global network of developers to collaborate, share knowledge, and drive collective innovation.
- Contests and Incubators: Partnering with philanthropists to invest in organizations solving challenges at the front lines of their communities.
OpenAI Academy, A Cultural Inclusive Initiative
According to the company’s blog, further actions to accommodate developers from low and middle-income countries were highlighted. One of the actions is OpenAI funding and publishing a professional translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark.
This is a measure of general AI intelligence, in 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Yoruba.
By supporting developers and organizations that understand the unique cultures, economies, and social dynamics of their communities, OpenAl ensures that Al applications are better tailored to meet local needs.
Note, these innovators are key to making Al accessible and empowering people across the globe regardless of their location or language to leverage technology to solve complex problems.
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