OpenAI Foundation launches $125M+ Public Data for Health grant program
owl_posting · x · 2026-09-16
The OpenAI Foundation announced its second life-sciences program, Public Data for Health, with an initial tranche of over $125 million in grants to nonprofits and universities, spanning data layers from molecules to epidemiology to regulatory knowledge. The rationale: breakthroughs in treating disease require pairing model intelligence with more observations of the world, and many datasets of enormous public value are never created or shared because no single institution has the incentive or capacity to fund them. Grantees like OpenADMET will build open datasets, benchmarks, and blinded competitions to test AI models on tasks such as drug screening.
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