Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity. Apply by October 8, 2025, for unrestricted grants that help communities shape AI for the public good.
OpenAI has grown a lot. We remain focused on the same core—pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress–but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people.
OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with publicly reported DPRK-affiliated threat actors using AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.
sync. is a research lab training foundational models to understand and manipulate humans in video. After outgrowing Google Colab, they partnered with Modal for efficient deployment, allowing rapid iteration and scaling to process over 100 hours of video daily.
Zencastr scaled up to 1,500 concurrent GPUs on Modal to process hundreds of years of podcast audio in just a few days. Today they run transcription, speaker detection, and audio enrichment for millions of podcast episodes on Modal, giving them cost efficiency, fast iteration, and zero DevOps overhead.
OpenAI banned accounts associated with the Iran-origin operation "IUVM", using AI to generate and translate pro-Iran, anti-Israel and anti-US website content.
Bertelsmann, the global media, services, and education company headquartered in Germany, will integrate OpenAI’s technology across multiple brands around the world.