OpenAI has awarded $40.5 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the first round of grants it has made since it rebranded its nonprofit as the OpenAI Foundation in October.

The foundation has committed $25 billion to fund health research and what it calls AI resilience, meaning 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 coming months based on recommendations from its board of directors.

The grant funding is unr

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