OpenAI gives $5M to Simons Foundation's $15M push to help mathematicians navigate AI-era results
OpenAI · x · 2026-10-15
OpenAI announced a $5M contribution to a new Simons Foundation initiative helping mathematicians examine, understand, and build on AI-produced results, funding workshops, conferences, and special programs, plus model and compute access for supported researchers.
The Simons Foundation is committing $15M overall to the effort through new partnerships with both OpenAI and Anthropic, including free AI compute for foundation-supported researchers.
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