July 30, 2026

OpenAI is giving 100,000 scientists free AI. Here’s how it can afford to.

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OpenAI made two announcements this week that look unrelated. One is generous. The other explains how it can afford to be. The generous one: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, Axios reported....