Mark Stevens, a venture capitalist and a board member of NVIDIA, and his wife, Mary, donated $200 million to the University of Southern California for artificial intelligence research. The university’s computing school will be renamed the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to this gift, the couple donated a total of $92 million to the university, of which Mark Stevens is an alum. Several centers at USC are already named in their honor.
UCLA Team Awarded $5 Million DARPA Contract to Develop AI for Math Advancement
A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools
$125 Million in Combined Giving Establishes the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing
The University of California San Diego has established the Halıcıoğlu School of Data Science and Computing thanks to $125 million in support from alumnus Taner Halıcıoğlu ’96. The school positions UC San Diego at the forefront of data science, AI and advanced computing education and research.
Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good - Humanity AI
Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good Pooled philanthropic fund […]
Schmidt Sciences awards $10 million to one of the world’s largest AI and humanities research programs - Schmidt Sciences
Nineteen teams will use AI to expand the study of art, dance, history, music, literature and more across thousands of years of global culture. Contact: Carlie Wiener – cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK— Using AI to reconstruct a marble map of Rome that shattered in 226 AD. Analyzing sperm whale calls for evidence of vowels and regional […]
UC San Diego Awarded $4.85M to Grow NEMAR into HPC Hub for Neuro-AI
NIH funding will expand NEMAR's AI capabilities, integrate petabyte-scale neuroelectromagnetic datasets with SDSC supercomputing, and support new foundation models for brain research and broader community access.
Trump Administration Announces More Than $5 Billion for the Genesis Mission, a National Mission on AI for Science
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios unveiled more
This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board
The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.
Announcing the initial People-First AI Fund grantees
The OpenAI Foundation announces the initial recipients of the People-First AI Fund, awarding $40.5M in unrestricted grants to 208 nonprofits supporting community innovation and opportunity.
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by tech giants like Google and Microsoft
Big tech companies are funneling money through a science nonprofit to help pay the salaries of AI staffers in Congress — and it’s just one example of the increasing influence outside-funded fellows are exerting on tech policy in Washington.
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools
A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.
NSF and NVIDIA award Ai2 a combined $152M to support building a national level fully open AI ecosystem | Ai2
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.
AI Is Changing Who Wins Research Grants
A new study from the Northwestern Innovation Institute finds that proposals showing stronger signs of AI-assisted writing were more likely to receive support from the National Institutes of Health, while also tending to align more closely with ideas that had already been funded.
Steve Blank Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Art…
This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.
Hetan Shah
Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available anthropic.com/news/economic-futures-researc…
