{"id":198787,"date":"2026-03-24T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:16","slug":"openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Foundation pledges $1B in grants to ensure AI &#8216;benefits all of humanity&#8217; :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/286c9-openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity\/\">OpenAI Foundation pledges $1B in grants to ensure AI &#8216;benefits all of humanity&#8217; :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/286c9-openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/286c9-openai-foundation-pledges-1b-in-grants-to-ensure-ai-benefits-all-of-humanity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 12:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit overseeing artificial intelligence company OpenAI and its product ChatGPT, pledged to grant out $1 billion in the next year and to build up its capacity as a major philanthropist.<\/li>\n<li>The pledge offers insight into how the open-source foundation plans to advance its charitable mission to develop AI for \u201call of humanity.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The new funding will be directed to life science and health research and efforts to mitigate AI&#8217;s effects on jobs, the economy, and mental health, particularly among children.<\/li>\n<li>In October 2023, the foundation made a commitment to spend $25 billion on similar causes but without specifying a timeline.<\/li>\n<li>The foundation will recruit a new executive director for overseeing its grantmaking activities.<\/li>\n<li>Founded in 2015 as a nonprofit lab, OpenAI has shifted its structure in recent years to accommodate its commercial operations, including subsidiaries like that behind ChatGPT.<\/li>\n<li>Despite its focus on profitability, the foundation&#8217;s nonprofit has revived its charitable activities: in 2024, it reportedly received $4,433 in contributions and granted out $7.6 million.<\/li>\n<li>Recent focus has shifted to improving the reach of its charitable initiatives, and it announced $40.5 million in grants to community-based nonprofits in December to support AI literacy, bolster civic life, and foster economic opportunity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Foundation pledges $1B in grants to ensure AI &#8216;benefits all of humanity&#8217; :: WRAL.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/2ef37f3b-0459-58fa-9821-f5898cbe09a6?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-198787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198789,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787\/revisions\/198789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}