Many countries have fast-growing technology sectors with talented developers and innovative organizations, but access to advanced training and technical resources remains limited. Investing in the development of local AI talent can fuel economic growth and innovation across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, education, and finance.

This initiative builds on OpenAI’s long-standing support for AI developers and organizations working on the front lines, and we'll be sharing more details soon about how to access the Academy's resources.

Over the past year, we've seen first-hand that investing in AI education, resources, and community-building can have an outsized impact. For example, KOBI⁠(opens in a new window), the winner of the OpenAI prize at The Tools Competition⁠(opens in a new window), uses AI to help students with dyslexia learn to read. I-Stem⁠(opens in a new window), one of the winners of the turn.io Chat for Impact contest⁠(opens in a new window), uses AI to enhance access to inaccessible content designed to help blind and low-vision communities in India find meaningful employment. OpenAI has provided API credits and technical guidance to support the winning organizations and the dozens of others working to address global challenges.

To further support developers around the world, OpenAI also funded and published⁠(opens in a new window) a professional translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark⁠(opens in a new window), a measure of general AI intelligence, into 14 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and Yoruba.