July 18 (Reuters) - OpenAI is committing $5 million to the American Journalism Project (AJP) under a partnership that will look for ways to support local news through artificial intelligence, the Microsoft-backed startup said on Tuesday. The deal will also give the non-profit and related organizations up to $5 million in OpenAI credits for the use of the technology popularized by ChatGPT. "With this partnership, we aim to promote ways for AI to enhance — rather than imperil — journalism," said Sarabeth Berman, CEO of AJP. AJP is a venture philanthropy that provides grants to local nonprofit news organizations, to help sustain their newsrooms. To date, it has raised $139 million from local and national funders to address the U.S.' local news crisis, and backed 41 nonprofit local news organizations across the country.

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Persons: OpenAI, ChatGPT, Sarabeth Berman, Samrhitha, Pooja Desai Organizations: American Journalism, Microsoft, Associated Press, ., Thomson Locations: Bengaluru