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OpenAI Scholars 2019: Meet our Scholars

OpenAI Blog 13 March 2019, 07:00

OpenAI selected eight scholars from 550 applicants for its 2019 Scholars program, representing expertise across disciplines including literature, philosophy, biology, statistics, economics, physics, and business. The acceptance rate was approximately 1.5 percent. The program aims to support researchers from underrepresented backgrounds in AI-related fields.

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Our class of eight scholars (out of 550 applicants) brings together collective expertise in literature, philosophy, cell biology, statistics, economics, quantum physics, and business innovation.

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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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