OpenAI Foundation funds "Public Data for Health" to create biology datasets for AI
DrMorganLevine · x · 2026-09-17
MIT Technology Review reports the OpenAI Foundation — owner of 26% of OpenAI and possibly the world's richest nonprofit — is staffing up and issuing grants under a new "Public Data for Health" effort, paying to create high-quality scientific datasets. Its first funded idea, from analyst Ruxandra Teslo: bid at bankruptcy proceedings for failed biotech companies to acquire their "lost archive" of regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data to train AI copilots for drug approval.
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