Update on the OpenAI Foundation

Last fall, OpenAI announced its recapitalization ⁠ , paving the way for the OpenAI Foundation to access significant resources. Today, we’re sharing how the Foundation is starting to put that support to work.

Our mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. This is a multi-faceted endeavor.

AI is already changing how people work, learn, and access care. It has the potential to unlock extraordinary benefits—faster medical breakthroughs, accelerated scientific discovery, more personalized services in healthcare and education, new tools for creativity and invention, higher productivity and economic growth, improved public services like transportation systems, and so much more. Our belief in this potential has guided OpenAI since its founding.

As previously announced, AI Resilience will also be one of our primary programs. This work concentrates on the new challenges that inevitably arise from more capable AI, so people can fully benefit from AI in ways that support and expand human agency, creativity, and opportunity.

AI Impact on Children & Youth: We want to help make sure AI tools are safe for young people and support healthy development. That includes investing in data-driven research and evaluation, and working across fields to help identify the right safeguards that help assure safe and beneficial interactions between AI and children and youth.

We will continue investing in initiatives that support communities, with a focus on helping people understand AI, benefit from its capabilities, and adapt to the changes it brings.

But building powerful systems to benefit humanity is only a part of the work of our mission. Advanced AI models will also present new challenges that are already surfacing, and we need to be prepared to identify these challenges and develop solutions to address them.

These are the two dimensions of what we’re building the Foundation to do. We aim to enable the use of AI to find solutions to humanity’s hardest problems, transform what people are capable of, and deliver real benefits in people’s lives—while working hard with partners to be ready for new challenges, and to help make society resilient, as AI advances.

This work is just beginning. Over the next year, as we quickly ramp up, the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. This includes early investments toward our previously announced $25 billion commitment to curing diseases and AI resilience.