Here's more on our initial strategy behind these grants, and other grants we're investigating in Public Data for Health, that may be of interest to researchers: Our starting hypotheses for areas OpenAI Foundation support can be most useful are: connected data, scarce data, and direct data. Datasets we fund will usually have one or two of these properties, described in more detail in the next tweets, and in rare cases will share all three properties. Across all datasets, we believe making data broadly accessible, while ensuring privacy whenever that relates to patient data, will become increasingly important. This will allow researchers to build on each other’s work, and scientific progress to emerge from unexpected places.

We are building a team to help define the future of the OpenAI Foundation. This is our first major hiring round, and what we are able to accomplish as an institution will be shaped by who joins now. Thread on roles and areas: