OpenAI—the tech company behind ChatGPT—has announced a $50 million commitment to leverage AI technologies and accelerate breakthroughs in collaboration with 15 research universities and institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
The funding will help launch NextGenAI, a consortium that aims to fuel new AI-driven advances in medicine, science, technology, and knowledge sharing while preparing the next generation of students, educators, and researchers to be AI-fluent. To that end, OpenAI will provide research grants, funding for computers, and access to data sets and application programming interfaces.
NextGenAI’s founding partners include: California Institute of Technology, California State University, Duke University, the University of Georgia, Harvard University, Howard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Mississippi, the Ohio State University, the University of Oxford, Sciences Po, and Texas A&M University, as well as Boston Children’s Hospital and the Boston Public Library.
“NextGenAI is designed to support the scientist searching for a cure, the scholar uncovering new insights, and the student mastering AI for the world ahead,” OpenAI wrote in a news release. “NextGenAI reinforces the vital partnership between academia and industry, ensuring that AI’s benefits extend to laboratories, libraries, hospitals, and classrooms worldwide.”
“This new collaboration marks an exciting step forward,” said University of Oxford pro-vice-chancellor Anne Trefethen. “By working together, we can learn from one another, advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence, understanding its impact on education, and unlocking its vast potential for the benefit of our university community and beyond.”
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