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Opening Eyes launching a program Open AI for countries that the company says will enable it to build out the local infrastructure needed

to better serve international AI customers. As a part of the new program, OpenAI will partner

with governments to assist with efforts like building out data center capacity and customizing

OpenAI's products, including ChatGPT, for specific languages and local needs.

Funding for the program will come from OpenAI as well as from governments in each country,

according to the startup.

The goal is to pursue 10 international projects to start, but OpenAI hasn't said where they'll

be located yet.

Open AI said that it hopes to spread democratic AI. What that

essentially means is that it wants to convince other countries to use Western AI models, Open

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