Today on the podcast, I want to talk about OpenAI, some big news out of them, and governments. Governments all over the world, OpenAI is launching something called OpenAI for Countries, which is very interesting. And essentially, they're hoping to work with and be funded by the governments of, I would assume, eventually every country in the world to build out infrastructure projects to work on things within their country. So that's fascinating.
And in another vein of government, OpenAI is currently working with the FDA in the United States, the Federal Drug Administration, to speed up the development of drugs with OpenAI and other AI tools. So both of these stories are really interesting, as OpenAI, I think, is looking to expand its usage. It's going directly to governments. And I think beyond just usage, it needs more money.
And it knows the number one way it's going to be able to get this is if it can make special partnerships with different countries, have the countries put in money, and they have a bunch of bells and whistles and things that they've said they'll add for countries. I think they're really fascinating. We're going to get into all of that. Before we do, I am so excited to announce that AI Box, my own software company that I've been working on for two and a half years, you've probably heard me mention it a hundred times, telling you to get on the wait list, and it's coming soon, and we're doing some great stuff.
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I hope it's exciting and super useful for you. You can check it out. There's a link in the description to AIbox.ai. All right, let's get into what OpenAI is doing.
The big thing here that I'm super excited about is kind of this new program, OpenAI for countries. So essentially, what this is going to allow them to do is build out what they're calling a local infrastructure, which they're saying is needed to serve international AI customers. So part of this program, OpenAI is essentially going to partner with governments. They're going to help them with building up data center capacity and also customizing OpenAI's products.
And this is where I think they can essentially try to charge more and ask countries to contribute or sponsor OpenAI or pay a little bit of money because they're like, look, we're going to build some special things for your particular language, for your particular culture, for your particular country's needs. We can customize ChatGPT for you, which I think is really interesting. And then they would like the governments to help fund this, of course. So the goal now, they said, is to find about 10 international projects to start with.
They're going to start with 10. They haven't said where those are going to be located yet, but that's kind of their first goal. And they said that their hope with all of this is to, quote, spread democratic AI, which essentially what this means is they're going to try to convince countries to use Western AI models instead of Chinese competitors, DeepSeek, and other AI models out of China. It's kind of interesting.
It's like, ever since DeepSeek came out, I actually think it was like a great catalyst for OpenAI because now they're like, look, we're not the bad guy compared to whatever swabbles Grok or Google or Meta might all have about who's open source, who's not, who's less censorship, who's not, whatever. So it's like less of a swabble about that and all of a sudden OpenAI is like, look, we're not Chinese, like very blatantly, strictly censoring what goes with the model or, you know, you have to pay a massive fine. Like, we're more open. We're a democratic AI.
We're not an authoritative AI. Whatever. Whatever. I cannot think of the word.
We've been accusing China of being authoritarian. They're not an authoritarian AI. There we go. So I think this is a great spin for them.
And yeah, honestly, in that case, in that framing, DeepSeek is probably one of the best things that could have happened to them. A big breakthrough out of China where they're like, look, now we've got a competitor there. They can have themselves in a new way. So this is interesting.
And they're going to try to be getting countries to pay for this. So according to Bloomberg, this is going to be essentially something that's going to complement what they're doing with their Stargate project. This is something they announced. They had a big press conference with Oracle CEO and Donald Trump in the White House.
And of course, SoftBank CEO. And they said they're going to spend $500 billion built at this massive data center project in the United States. So it's kind of going to complement that. And they also said that they might lean on Stargate infrastructure for the OpenAI for countries program.
And even some of the funding from some of those investors might be used. So that is pretty interesting. All right. Let's get into what's going on with the Federal Drug Administration in the United States.
The FDA. OpenAI apparently is meeting with a bunch of officials there. They're talking about essentially how that agency is going to use AI to speed up how they're testing drugs. So according to the report, OpenAI has been discussing this.
And they're calling the project CoderGPT or CDERGPT. So they're not Coder, CDERGPT, which essentially is a tool for the Center for Drug Evaluation. And this, you know, the CDE essentially regulates over-the-counter and prescription drugs in the United States. Apparently, some associates from Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, have been part of talks with this as well.
It's definitely like a pretty common thing for drug development to take an insane amount of time, you know, up to a decade, sometimes 10 years to complete trials for some popular drugs. Very expensive. Very costly. Takes a long time.
So OpenAI is hoping to work with FDA to essentially accelerate a portion of that timeline. Obviously, not everything. Like, it's got to go through a lot of tests and things. It's got to be pretty rigorous.
But there is a lot that AI can help with. We've seen a lot where people use AI to help with drug discovery and other things. So this looks to be the angle they're trying to take towards this. AI essentially is going to try to make this whole drug discovery process a little bit faster and a lot of the administration stuff faster as well.
So this is very interesting. And I think we're going to start seeing, hopefully, faster drug time turnarounds. This is going to lead to a lot of innovation and a lot of exciting new things on the market there. So hopefully diseases and other things will be able to be cured faster or researched quicker or, you know, we'll come to better outcomes on all that.
So very interesting in everything OpenAI is doing with the government, with, you know, the FDA. I'm super excited about everything we're seeing there. If you're interested in trying out all of the different AI models from OpenAI, go check out AIbox.ai. You get access to Datanthropic, Claude, 11 Labs, all the top AI models all in one place for only $20 a month.
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