OpenAI Foundation launches second science program with $125M+ in health data grants
owl_posting · x · 2026-09-18
The OpenAI Foundation is announcing over $125M in grants for its second science program, built on the idea that breakthroughs against disease come from pairing intelligence with more observations of the world.
- The funding strategy targets datasets with one or more of three properties: connected data, scarce data, and direct data; most funded datasets will have one or two, and rare cases all three.
- The Foundation argues that making data broadly accessible while ensuring patient privacy will let researchers build on each other's work and let scientific progress emerge from unexpected places.
- More detail on the initial strategy and the Public Data for Health grants under investigation is available in the thread.
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