OpenAI’s $50M Nonprofit Move, Perplexity’s Mobile Browser, Microsoft’s EU AI Code Stance & More

As the competition intensifies in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, industry leader OpenAI is pushing hard to ensure it keeps its edge over rivals.

Recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, which allows its prized chatbot—ChatGPT—to not only think but also act while completing complex tasks from start to finish. Additionally, it’s improving its offerings by expanding into AI-powered wearables, growing its presence across various regions, bringing its capabilities to government agencies, and planning to integrate a payment checkout system into ChatGPT.

All of this comes as the company is facing a tough battle to keep social media giant Meta from poaching key talent.

At the same time, OpenAI’s experimental reasoning LLM achieved a “gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO),” a longstanding grand challenge in AI, as per Alexander Wei, an OpenAI researcher.

Wei also revealed that OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 soon, which isn’t the model that achieved the gold medal-level performance, saying, “We don’t plan to release anything with this level of math capability for several months.”


Now, the company has made its latest move—one that benefits the community.

OpenAI announced it was launching an initial $50 million fund to support nonprofit and community organizations.

This effort follows the publishing of the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission’s report, which includes insights from over 500 individuals and 100 organizations, including labor, business, faith, education, health, youth development, civil rights, and economic opportunity, representing more than 7 million Americans.

The idea is to provide immediate and direct support to frontline and mission-based organizations that serve the community, often with limited resources.

OpenAI created the commission in April to support “an engagement process to gather learnings and feedback from a wide range of stakeholders on how OpenAI’s philanthropy can address long-term systemic issues” and provide recommendations—the report consists of the Commission’s findings.

The fund will help leverage AI technology to support community-led research and boost innovation in areas such as education, economic opportunity, community organizing, and healthcare.

The move also comes on the back of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Jam, which aims to bring together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders across 10 locations and explore how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can boost their goals. It builds on the company's previous 1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session, held in February 2025, which brought together “over 1,000 scientists for a day to use AI to accelerate scientific discovery.”

In addition to focusing on productivity gains that AI brings through boosting how people think, learn, create, and build, the jam will enable practical, hands-on methods to use AI to benefit everyone. “Participants will use ChatGPT to build new tools tailored to their specific needs—from streamlining case management, to improving community outreach, to enhancing service delivery.”

Each of the 10 Nonprofit Jam locations comes with regional nonprofit partners and community conveners that help tailor the event to local needs.

Locations include Oakland, Los Angeles, Salinas (California), Denver (Colorado), Dallas (Texas), Chicago (Illinois), Columbus (Ohio), New York City (New York), Wilmington (Delaware), and Bentonville (Arkansas).

Over the past few months, OpenAI has been vocal in its efforts to ensure that AGI (artificial general intelligence) benefits all of humanity, and the fund will help provide immediate support by leveraging AI to solve hard problems. 

“It’s one early step in our vision to pursue a wider set of efforts through partnerships and innovative programs. We are excited that our new structure will help us expand the kind of impact we can have in the years ahead,” said OpenAI about the move.

“We believe many of the answers to how our tools can best help communities lie within the communities themselves. We are proud to build with them, and we are just getting started. We look forward to sharing more soon.”


OpenAI isn’t the only one expanding its avenues.

Perplexity AI has been a rival not just to OpenAI but also to Google, especially in the search engine space, with its AI-powered search engine.

Now, the company plans to bring its Comet browser to smartphones and is in talks with mobile device makers to pre-install the browser, as per information provided by CEO Aravind Srinivas to Reuters.

The company wants to leverage the “stickiness” concept, where users tend to use pre-installed or default browsers, and target “tens to hundreds of millions” of users next year. However, this could prove to be tough, as Srinivas notes, “It's not easy to convince mobile OEMs to change the default browser to Comet from Chrome.”

Amid this, concerns remain about safe AI usage.

A recent study found that a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation, contains thousands of images with personally identifiable information such as identifiable faces and documents.

The revelation gives rise to the likelihood that millions of images of passports, driver’s licenses, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents could be included in the open-source AI training data set. Why do the researchers think the data could climb to the millions? It’s because they audited just 0.1% of the data.

This is why the European Union has been a bit stricter about data protection and privacy.

As such, it introduced the voluntary code of practice, which focuses on safeguarding copyright-protected content and bringing in measures that reduce risks. The code was drafted by 13 independent experts and will require AI model developers to publish summaries of the content they’ve used to train their general-purpose AI models, as well as introduce policies to comply with EU copyright laws.

The code is expected to apply to AI leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and more.

Currently, OpenAI and Mistral have signed the code, but—in the latest developments on the matter—Meta confirmed that it won’t be signing it.

“Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it,” said Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan in a post published on LinkedIn. “This Code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.”

On the other hand, Microsoft said it was likely to sign the code.

“I think it's likely we will sign. We need to read the documents,” Microsoft President Brad Smith told Reuters, adding, “Our goal is to find a way to be supportive and at the same time one of the things we really welcome is the direct engagement by the AI Office with industry.”

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