The Lenfest Institute Receives New Funding Support for Artificial Intelligence Program

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and OpenAI have announced the expansion of the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with an additional $5 million cash commitment and supplementary software support from OpenAI.

Expansion of the Program

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism has shared the new phase of the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with the public.

According to the announcement, this new phase is supported by an additional $5 million in funding and software credits provided by OpenAI.

Contents of the Support Package

The new commitment provided by OpenAI includes doubling the previous support and increasing engineering resources.

The package also features up to $5 million in software credits and technical engineering support.

Impact of Pilot Projects

Launched in 2024 with fellows at eleven major American news organizations, the program paved the way for significant innovations.

During this process, tools such as Dewey and Scrape were developed at The Philadelphia Inquirer, while translation and archive workflows were established at Chicago Public Media.

Future Goals

Within the framework of the expanding program, a new cohort of news organizations is planned to be included in the process.

Successful projects are aimed to be transformed into reusable tools for the entire news industry.