OpenAI is awarding $1 million in grants and up to $1 million in API credits to 14 projects led by independent organizations, following up on a commitment made in the 2026 policy paper Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age. The grants aim to promote economic opportunity and societal resilience as AI advances. Over 400 applicants responded; selected projects span the US, EU, Brazil, Singapore, and South Korea and address two questions: how AI can broaden economic opportunity, and how societies can build resilience.

Under the economic opportunity theme, projects include: the American Enterprise Institute’s bipartisan commission on AI and workforce scenarios; the Centre for European Policy Studies examining AI dividend distribution across Europe; the European Centre for International Political Economy comparing models for a ‘Right to AI’ and productive asset ownership; the Abundance Institute analyzing state-level energy policy for data centers; the Progressive Policy Institute designing a person-based benefits system and ‘livelihood insurance’; the Tax Foundation projecting AI’s effect on tax revenue and options; Windfall Trust scaling international working groups on fiscal and labor policy; the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada studying research infrastructure for AI-driven science in Brazil; and Hospital das Clínicas da USP evaluating AI clinical infrastructure for Brazil’s public health system.

Under the resilience theme: the Institute for Security and Technology building a measurement and coordination framework for recursively self-improving (RSI) AI systems; the Nuclear Threat Initiative testing legal feasibility for international AIxBio risk information sharing; the Council on Strategic Risks creating a frontier-AI safety module for national security professionals; Nanyang Technological University developing privacy-preserving AI agents for policy simulation; and Yonsei University testing AI methods for democratic accountability in South Korea’s National Assembly.

Projects run for six months with results reported in 2027. OpenAI states that the grants are meant to widen the circle of people developing policy approaches and to inform a broader public debate about the policies required for the Intelligence Age. The company explicitly notes that no company or government has all the answers and that these projects are a beginning.