--- title: OpenAI gives 100,000 scientists free AI, and shows how description: OpenAI is granting 100,000 academic researchers free access to its top frontier model, GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, through 2027 via a new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-gives-100-000-scientists-free-ai-and-shows-how-pyma6bja0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI gives 100,000 scientists free AI, and shows how | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI is granting 100,000 academic researchers free access to its top frontier model, GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, through 2027 via a new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-gives-100-000-scientists-free-ai-and-shows-how-pyma6bja0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pYmA6BJa0.png og:image:alt: OpenAI gives 100,000 scientists free AI, and shows how og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI gives 100,000 scientists free AI, and shows how **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI is granting 100,000 academic researchers free access to its top frontier model, GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, through 2027 via a new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers programme. The move is enabled by significant cost reductions in running AI agents: OpenAI's open-source agent harness was optimised so GPT-5.6 Sol uses 54% fewer output tokens than before, and GPT-5.6 itself rewrote OpenAI's own production kernels using Codex, boosting token efficiency by over 15%. Critics note the dual strategic benefit — locking researchers into OpenAI's ecosystem while reducing inference costs makes broad giveaways financially viable. The combined play positions OpenAI to expand its user base while deepening dependency on its stack. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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