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Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI Launches Free Frontier-Model Access for 100,000 Academic Researchers

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program intended to give 100,000 scientists, mathematicians, and engineers at selected institutions free access to frontier models and research tools through 2027

Jul 29, 2026·2 sources

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▪Axios reports that the program provides hosted product access but does not provide model weights or training data requested by some independent AI researchers.
▪Program workspaces include business-grade privacy and security protections, and participant data is not used to train OpenAI models by default.
▪OpenAI describes the program as part of a commitment of more than 250 million dollars through 2027 to support external scientific research and discovery.

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Academic research1 ChatGPT1 GPT-5.61 OpenAI1

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