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ChatGPT for Academic Researchers: Who Qualifies and How to Apply

Roughly 1.3 million people already use ChatGPT every week for advanced science and mathematics, sending about 8.4 million messages. OpenAI has now decided to hand the most demanding slice of that audience its frontier models for free. On 29 July 2026 it launched ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, a program that will give 100,000 researchers free […]