Several of these organizations were already working with OpenAI partners (Microsoft is the founding partner and anchor tenant of the SOVA Innovation Hub in a town of ~8,000 people) and the call for proposals required applicant organizations to be based in the US.
I don’t know how much of the overlap was deliberate vs. a reflection of who was invited to their nonprofit events and able to respond to the call for proposals on short notice. For some relevant orgs (like those working on AI & health), it may be worth keeping an eye on future funding opportunities and applying.
Several of these organizations were already working with OpenAI partners (Microsoft is the founding partner and anchor tenant of the SOVA Innovation Hub in a town of ~8,000 people) and the call for proposals required applicant organizations to be based in the US.
I don’t know how much of the overlap was deliberate vs. a reflection of who was invited to their nonprofit events and able to respond to the call for proposals on short notice. For some relevant orgs (like those working on AI & health), it may be worth keeping an eye on future funding opportunities and applying.