“We are offering $100K–$2M grants for academic labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers.”In its own words: openai.com
A one-off $10M OpenAI grant programme (Dec 2023), run with Eric Schmidt, offering $100K-$2M grants and $150K graduate fellowships for research on aligning superhuman AI. Not a separate legal entity.
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A one-off $10M open call (December 2023) from OpenAI, with Eric Schmidt, for technical research on aligning superhuman AI: weak-to-strong generalization, interpretability, scalable oversight and related areas. Academic labs, nonprofits and individuals applied for grants, and graduate students for one-year fellowships. No prior alignment experience was required.
Says it gives about $10M (2023)
Itemised here $300k in 2 grants
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2 grants totalling $300k, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.
2024 2 grants · $300k
| Date | Recipient | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2024 | Cornell University (Sanjiban Choudhury) | $150k | Superalignment Fast Grant: whether human oversight of simple coding tasks scales to much harder ones (imitation learning with code-generating LMs) source |
| 2024 | MIT (Hunter Lang, PhD student, CSAIL) | $150k | OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship for graduate students (one year: $75K stipend + $75K compute and research funding, per the programme page); weak supervision research. Year inferred from the 2024 award cycle source |