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OpenAI Academy launches with $1M in developer credits for devs in low- and middle-income countries
OpenAI has funded the translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark into 14 languages.
I’m talking, of course, about the OpenAI Academy, a new effort announced today from the AI unicorn that will begin by awarding some unspecified number of developers in low- and middle-income countries $1 million in API credits. Of course, OpenAI will stand to benefit from entrenching itself more among the up-and-coming developers building new startups, but also, there’s nothing that I see in the announcement that says these devs can’t use other AI models simultaneously, nor that they couldn’t one day switch out the underlying API pipelines to other rival providers. The U.S. and many European nations are high-income, while many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia fall into the low and lower-middle-income categories, where GNI per capita remains a barrier to accessing cutting-edge technologies like AI.
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