OpenAI has launched a new effort called OpenAI Academy that will award developers from low and middle-income countries $1 million in API credits. The blog making the announcement said that the goal of the program was to ensure that the potential of artificial intelligence was distributed across disadvantaged communities globally.

“Many countries have fast-growing technology sectors filled with talented developers and innovative organizations, yet access to advanced training and technical resources is still a significant barrier,” the announcement states. “Investing in the development of local AI talent can have a transformative impact across a range of industries.”

Besides, the company has also pledged to host incubators and contests as well in partnership with philanthropists to provide investment in organisations from these communities. 

The AI firm has also said it has funded the translation of the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark into 14 languages including Arabic, Bengali and Swahili to aid non-English speaking communities.