OpenAI for Countries helps our allies and partners build AI infrastructure rooted in democratic values. By offering these models to governments, we’re supporting the global buildout of AI on US-led rails—enabling nations to tap into AI-driven economic growth, innovation, and opportunity. For swing states, the availability of powerful open-weight models will be an incentive to build on democratic AI and not autocratic AI.

And by offering it through our own nonprofit to grantees across the country, we’ll be equipping nonprofits to use these models to scale their impact and serve more people.

There are our most advanced open-weight reasoning models, which can handle advanced problem-solving and are adaptable to many tasks. They give anyone—from individual developers and local nonprofits, to large enterprises and governments—the freedom to run and customize AI on their own infrastructure, democratizing access to AI across industries, communities, and countries globally. These models also lowers barriers for emerging markets, resource-constrained sectors, and smaller organizations. With the right tools in their hands, people can build, innovate, and unlock new opportunities.

Open models also create a powerful network effect for advancing US-led democratic AI. When many developers use and improve the same tools, every contribution—new integrations, fine-tunes, or performance improvements—benefits the whole community. It’s the same reason that Linux runs a major share of the world’s servers: open-source collaboration ensures that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Just as science advances through incremental contributions that build toward major breakthroughs, shared AI tools let the best ideas emerge faster and reach more people.

There is also a strategic dimension. The country that produces the most widely adopted AI models shapes the global standards that others follow. Choosing to build on models developed in the US is effectively a bet on American innovation and values. In the Intelligence Age, AI models are a form of soft power: when governments and companies adopt US-origin models, they’re choosing an ecosystem rooted in reliability, transparency, and democratic norms.