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OpenAI Foundation Grants SecureBio $17.2M and Hires 20+ Staff in First Major Scale Up

The Institute for Protein Design and the Health Coalition are among the early beneficiaries of a funding model designed to turn AI capabilities into broad public benefit. The OpenAI Foundation recently granted $17.2M to SecureBio Detection to reduce the time required to move from sample collection to results and is now hiring more than 20 people. These new positions include four roles on a life sciences team intended to build scientific infrastructure for artificial general intelligence.

The foundation deployed hundreds of millions of dollars in its first five months and plans to spend billions to support AI resilience against biological and cyber threats. It is integrating AI into its own operational decisions and funding efforts to transform public health delivery in the US.

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  1. SOURCE@owl_posting“4 roles in the life-sciences team!”x.com
  2. SUPPORT@ethanjperez“reduce our end-to-end time (sample collection to results)”x.com
  3. SOURCE@jachiam0“turn AI’s capabilities into benefits people can feel”x.com
  4. SUPPORT@woj_zaremba“deployed hundreds of millions of dollars in our first five months, and our planned spending is in the billions”x.com
  5. SUPPORT@jachiam0“This is our first major hiring round”x.com
  6. SUPPORT@andrew_n_carr“joined the OpenAI Foundation to lead "AI Resources"”x.com
  7. SUPPORT@miles_brundage“joined the OpenAI Foundation in May to work on AI Resilience”x.com
  8. SUPPORT@thezvi“granted SecureBio Detection $17.2M to reduce our end-to-end time (sample collection to results)”x.com
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