ChatGPT maker funds efforts to broaden AI's reach

OpenAI said Monday it has paid to translate and publish a key AI benchmark into 14 languages in hopes of spurring more investment in non-English AI systems.

Why it matters: Much of the internet text used to train AI systems is in English and a handful of other languages.

• Driving the news: OpenAI said that the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark will be available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili and Yoruba.
• The ChatGPT maker is also launching OpenAI Academy, providing grants, technical advice and other incentives to developers and organizations that are working to address local challenges, an effort that will kick off in a range of low and middle income countries.

Between the lines: OpenAI is making these announcements as CEO Sam Altman attends his first UN General Assembly week in New York and meets with various international officials.

• I'll be interviewing Altman later today on stage, alongside Amandeep Gill, the United Nations Secretary-General's envoy on technology.