University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Endowment Fund

OpenAI Foundation Launches Public Data for Health, Funding Biotech Data Troves for AI Drug Discovery

- The OpenAI Foundation launched Public Data for Health, an effort to pay for high-quality scientific datasets it says AI needs to make medical breakthroughs. - A $500,000 grant to 1Day Sooner will fund bids at bankruptcy proceedings to acquire common technical documents from failed biotech companies. - The foundation also pledged $40 million for novel cancer vaccine data collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and support for OpenAdmet. - Separately, Harell Data raised $15 million to pay data generators a share of revenue from AI model builders using their curated datasets.