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EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant

OpenAI Blog 28 January 2026, 01:00

The EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant provides €500,000 in funding for organizations and researchers working on youth safety and wellbeing in contexts involving AI. The program allocates half a million euros across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Organizations can now apply to support projects that address how artificial intelligence affects young people's health and protection.

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Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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