OpenAI introduces mentorship program to support tech entrepreneurs

OpenAI has released a new program called OpenAI Grove that targets early entrepreneurs looking to build with artificial ￰1￱ company said the program aims to connect individuals to co-build with OpenAI researchers and will include resources designed to accelerate their ￰2￱ initiative is also aimed at developers at the evolving stages of their company development, from pre-idea to pre-seed ￰3￱ tech firm also plans to bring technical leaders to mentor participants for five weeks on content and ￰4￱ will be given early access to OpenAI’s new tools and ￰5￱ program includes in-person workshops introducing openai grove: a program for early stage ￰6￱ builds on our existing work with openai for startups & pioneers, and includes 5 weeks of hands-on workshops, office hours, events with our team, and early ￰7￱ here before 9/24: ￰0￱ — Brad Lightcap (@bradlightcap) September 12, 2025 There will also be in-person workshops located in the company’s San Francisco ￰8￱ will give participants access to the firm’s tools and models prior to general ￰9￱ company hopes the program will enable participants to explore raising capital or other revenues internally or externally to ￰10￱ first Groove program will include fifteen participants, and the tech company recommends participants from all backgrounds and experience ￰11￱ have until September 24, 2025, to apply for the ￰12￱ program will run from October 20 to November 21, with required in-person sessions during the first and last ￰13￱ tech company will also cover travel costs for the first and last week, while the other weeks will be completed ￰14￱ will be an additional 4-6 hours of asynchronous work each week in ￰15￱ aren’t required to build on top of OpenAI’s API in the program since the company welcomes anyone building with ￰16￱ tech companies, including Microsoft’s for Startups, have launched their AI accelerator programs partnered with Pearl X for pre-seed ￰17￱ also launched its Startup Cloud AI Accelerator program last ￰18￱ Insights revealed that AI startups have raised a total of $104.3 billion in the ￰19￱ the first half of the ￰20￱ also disclosed that there are around 1,300 AI startups with over $100 million valuations at the time of ￰21￱ launches its Pioneers Program The company also launched its OpenAI Pioneers Program in April, designed to advance AI deployment in real-world use ￰22￱ program also includes evaluations aiming to give developers the tools to optimize model performance in their ￰23￱ said it seeks to improve its impact globally as AI adoption accelerates across ￰24￱ firm believes that creating domain-specific evaluations best reflects real-world use cases and helps teams assess model performance in high-stakes ￰25￱ tech company also found that fine-tuning reasoning models is a better way to improve performance across a wide range of ￰26￱ to OpenAI, the initiative only requires less data and effort to ￰27￱ said it will design evaluations tailored to the domain of companies in industries like finance, insurance, accounting, and many ￰28￱ initiative is also designed to establish clear benchmarks that guide model development and improve trust in AI ￰29￱ tech company said companies in the program will get the opportunity to collaborate with its team to create model improvements with reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT).

According to the report, the model customization technique enables the creation of expert models for a narrow set of tasks in the company’s ￰30￱ model will also train custom models for OpenAI’s top three use ￰31￱ ChatGPT maker believes that RFT companies can better solve customers’ pain points and improve model ￰32￱ acknowledged that its team would guide companies through the program and that companies could choose how to deploy the ￰33￱ models will also be ready for production use at ￰34￱ you're reading this, you’re already ￰35￱ there with our newsletter .