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Nonprofit Current AI is building open, public AI infrastructure to serve underserved languages and communities, backed by $400M in funding from governments and foundations. It has launched Suno Sutra, an offline AI device supporting 22 Indian languages, and is funding open-source AI projects.

arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization, with major funding from the Simons Foundation and Schmidt Sciences, as announced in a blog post.

Anthropic announced it is joining RAISE US as a founding partner, a nonprofit coalition focused on strengthening the American workforce through employer-led action, AI-enabled training, and policy innovation for the transition to transformative AI.

Stripe, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation are backing a new $500-million nonprofit called Intercept aimed at preventing and ultimately eliminating respiratory viruses like the common cold and flu through vaccines and air-cleaning systems.

The Trump administration took down climate.gov, but volunteers and former staff preserved the data and relaunched it as a nonprofit site (climate.us), restoring lost climate information and planning to expand resources.

Watch Duty, the wildfire tracking app, is expanding to include flood alerts, using buoy data and federal agency information to provide real-time push notifications to users in flood-prone areas.

Chef Robotics deploys AI-powered robots to help a San Francisco nonprofit assemble medically tailored meals, addressing volunteer shortages.

Elon Musk claims the judge never ruled on the merits of the OpenAI case, only on a calendar technicality, and announces he will appeal to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that a precedent allowing looted charities would harm charitable giving in America.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are in court over Musk's lawsuit claiming OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission for profit. The trial features testimony from key figures including Satya Nadella and Ilya Sutskever.

Elon Musk lost his landmark lawsuit against OpenAI on statute of limitations grounds, as a federal jury and judge ruled his claims were filed too late. Musk plans to appeal.

Zulip transitions to a nonprofit foundation with the donation of Kandra Labs, ensuring long-term sustainability and independence. Founder Tim Abbott steps back to join Anthropic along with three senior team members.

LawZero is a nonprofit startup advancing Yoshua Bengio’s research to develop safe-by-design AI systems and oracles, aiming to solve alignment challenges and mitigate deceptive behaviors in frontier models.

OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, establishing the OpenAI Foundation as a nonprofit entity controlling the for-profit business with approximately $130 billion in equity, enabling the foundation to pursue a $25 billion philanthropic commitment in health breakthroughs and AI resilience while maintaining mission-focused governance.

OpenAI announces its nonprofit will retain control while gaining an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), and launches a $50 million grant initiative to support AI literacy and community innovation. The restructuring aims to ensure the nonprofit benefits financially as OpenAI grows, while maintaining its mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.

OpenAI launches a $50 million fund to support nonprofit and community organizations, informed by the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission report, focusing on AI applications in education, healthcare, economic opportunity, and community organizing.

OpenAI is hosting a nationwide Nonprofit Jam event bringing together 1,000+ nonprofit leaders across 10 locations to learn practical applications of generative AI for their organizations. Participants receive 12 months of free ChatGPT Plus access and training through OpenAI Academy in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation and Emerson Collective.

OpenAI's Board of Directors released a statement acknowledging findings from an independent Nonprofit Commission report, which evaluated the organization's philanthropic initiatives and long-term impact strategy. The board committed to using the commission's recommendations to improve its nonprofit operations and mission alignment.

OpenAI announces a structural evolution to better accomplish its mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity, addressing the need for massive computational resources and broader access to AI tools while maintaining its nonprofit mission.

OpenAI announces the formation of a nonprofit commission with four experienced advisors (Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver) to guide the company's philanthropic efforts and ensure AI benefits are directed toward addressing global challenges in health, education, and public service.

OpenAI is forming a commission of experts to guide the development of what it calls the world's best-equipped nonprofit, leveraging AI technology and financial resources for philanthropic impact in health, education, and public services. Commission members will be announced in April 2025, with insights submitted to the OpenAI Board within 90 days.