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Introducing OpenAI for Countries
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OpenAI has launched 'OpenAI for Countries,' an initiative to help governments build AI infrastructure aligned with democratic principles, framed as an alternative to authoritarian AI models. Through US government-coordinated partnerships, OpenAI will assist nations with data centers, customized ChatGPT deployments, safety controls, and national AI startup funds. The initiative explicitly links AI governance to geopolitical competition, positioning democratic AI as a counterweight to centralized authoritarian AI development.
Key Points
- •OpenAI will partner with governments to build in-country secure data centers supporting data sovereignty and local AI industry development.
- •Customized ChatGPT services will be offered to citizens, localized for language and culture, for healthcare, education, and public services.
- •The initiative is framed as geopolitical: spreading 'democratic AI' as an explicit alternative to authoritarian AI that consolidates government power.
- •National AI startup funds will be co-invested to seed local AI ecosystems, creating jobs and new industries in partner countries.
- •All partnerships are coordinated with the US government, tightly linking OpenAI's commercial expansion with American foreign policy objectives.
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May 7, 2025
[Global Affairs](https://openai.com/news/global-affairs/)
# Introducing OpenAI for Countries
A new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails.
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Our [Stargate project](https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/), an unprecedented investment in America’s AI infrastructure announced in January with President Trump and our partners Oracle and SoftBank, is now underway with our first supercomputing campus in Abilene, Texas, and more sites to come.
We’ve heard from many countries asking for help in building out similar AI infrastructure—that they want their own Stargates and similar projects. It’s clear to everyone now that this kind of infrastructure is going to be the backbone of future economic growth and national development. Technological innovation has always driven growth by helping people do more than they otherwise could—AI will scale human ingenuity itself and drive more prosperity by scaling our freedoms to learn, think, create and produce all at once.
We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI, which means the development, use and deployment of AI that protects and incorporates long-standing democratic principles. Examples of this include the freedom for people to choose how they work with and direct AI, the prevention of government use of AI to amass control, and a free market that ensures free competition. All these things contribute to broad distribution of the benefits of AI, discourage the concentration of power, and help advance our mission. Likewise, we believe that partnering closely with the US government is the best way to advance democratic AI.
Today, we’re introducing OpenAI for Countries, a new initiative within the Stargate project. This is a moment when we need to act to support countries around the world that would prefer to build on democratic AI rails, and provide a clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI that would deploy it to consolidate power.
In response to these interested governments, OpenAI is offering a new kind of partnership for the Intelligence Age. Through formalized infrastructure collaborations, and in coordination with the US government, OpenAI will:
- **Partner with countries to help build in-country data center capacity.** These secure data centers will help support the sovereignty of a country’s data, build new local industries, and make it easy to customize AI and leverage their data in a private and compliant way.
- **Provide customized ChatGPT to citizens.** This will help deliver improved healthcare and education, more efficient public services, and more. This
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