I’m a tech community organizer in Belgrade and I’ve done a 20+ hackathons over the years, most recently an AI one where we supplied teams with credits on an adhoc basis with whatever they needed at the moment.
I was hoping I could get in touch with appropriate folks @ appropriate orgs and get some Preformatted textkind of support or discount in order to supply our community events with these resources.
I would hold no hope of reaching OpenAI. It appears they are past the point of giving free anything, not even a $5 trial credit.
Microsoft startup credits that were granted - OpenAI has refused to turn on recently, responding essentially"we no longer need you". The Startups program and “Converge 2” basically saw a bunch of people submitting free ideas to OpenAI to then get ghosted. Research access program applications being ignored, and acceptance letters being just more dead links with no credits.
Here’s “OpenAI Academy” recently, “API credits for poor nations”, but notice how it has just a feel-good announcement and NO WAY to engage with OpenAI?