OpenAI Gives Frontier Models Free to 10,000 Researchers, Expanding to 100,000 by 2027
xwang_lk · x · 2026-09-09
OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models.
The program starts with 10,000 researchers and will expand to 100,000 through 2027, aiming to accelerate discovery across disciplines. Commenters noted it also means a flood of RL data for OpenAI.
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