OpenAI Offers Free Frontier Models to 10,000 Researchers, Eyeing Expansion

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, offering free frontier models to an initial 10,000 researchers with plans to expand to 100,000 by 2027, though critics suspect a hidden data-collection motive.

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