OpenAI will award $40.5 million to more than 200 nonprofits before the end of the year, following an open call for applications in September.

This is the first wave of donations since the maker of ChatGPT rebranded its nonprofit as the OpenAI Foundation in October. The company has committed $25 billion to helping fund health research and what it calls AI resilience or ways to minimize the risks of these technologies. It hasn’t said how quickly it will grant out those funds.

OpenAI promised to grant out $50 million in July in response to the recommendations of an advisory commission they convened to offer feedback about how it should accomplish its mission of building safe artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.

It said it would announce another $9.5 million in grants in the

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