{"id":773,"date":"2025-03-17T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-03-18T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:59:45","slug":"hochul-expands-ai-initiative-to-support-researchers-at-nyu-other-state-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/hochul-expands-ai-initiative-to-support-researchers-at-nyu-other-state-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul expands AI initiative to support researchers at NYU, other state universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s Empire AI initiative has expanded rapidly over the past several weeks, with three more New York colleges slated to join the consortium of research institutions \u2014 <\/span>which includes NYU<\/span><\/a> \u2014 if budgetary plans are approved. Amid ongoing efforts at NYU to expand programming in science and technology, the $400 million initiative bolsters artificial intelligence research at the university.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October, Hochul launched the first stage of Empire AI with a center housing 96 advanced computer processors in upstate New York. The seven founding institutions \u2014 including Columbia University, the State University of New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute \u2014\u00a0 along with other private partners, collectively invested<\/span> $125 million<\/span><\/a> in the initiative. In her proposal for next year\u2019s budget, Hochul included <\/span>$90 million in capital funding<\/span><\/a> to support the inclusion of three more institutions into the consortium, each of which are set to invest an additional $50 million in Empire AI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Christine Constantinople, a CAS assistant professor of neural science, said that the initiative is able to accelerate the progress of her lab\u2019s research with access to artificial neural networks \u2014 AI models that replicate the function of human brains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the state-of-the-art research that academia is competing with is happening at big tech companies that have compute power and resources,\u201d Constantinople said in an interview with WSN. \u201cThe goal of Empire AI is to basically provide that level of compute power in an academic research setting. It really changes the landscape of what\u2019s possible to do in a lab.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The initiative aims to increase the accessibility of state-of-the-art technology \u2014 previously exclusive to large companies such as Apple and Microsoft \u2014 to academic institutions. Hochul has also highlighted that Empire AI could create jobs and increase New York\u2019s contribution to breakthrough AI research in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month, Cornell University received a <\/span>$10.5 million gift<\/span><\/a> from Tom <\/span>Secunda, one of the founding investors in the consortium and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., to fund research using Empire AI\u2019s resources. <\/span>In a <\/span>Feb. 21 press release<\/span><\/a>, Hochul detailed that the three prospective institutions would use Empire AI\u2019s resources to advance medical research, AI learning and health care infrastructure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, NYU has highlighted goals to increase science and technology resources and further its global presence in STEM fields. In addition to joining the Empire AI consortium, the university has also <\/span>expanded funding<\/span><\/a> for science and engineering facilities and employed Tandon dean <\/span>Juan de Pablo<\/span><\/a> as the university\u2019s inaugural executive vice president for global science and technology.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEmpire AI was really helpful, because things that used to take us a week to run, you could finish in a day,\u201d Constantinople told WSN. \u201cIt really accelerated the progress of the research and allowed us to be more rigorous and explore more parameter spaces because of the computer power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Graylin Lucas at news@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story Hochul expands AI initiative to support researchers at NYU, other state universities<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s Empire AI initiative has expanded rapidly over the past several weeks, with three more New York colleges slated to join the consortium of research institutions \u2014 which includes NYU \u2014 if budgetary plans are approved. Amid ongoing efforts at NYU to expand programming in science and technology, the $400 million initiative bolsters artificial intelligence research at the university. In October, Hochul launched the first stage of Empire AI with a center housing 96 advanced computer processors in upstate New York. The seven founding institutions \u2014 including Columbia University, the State University of New York and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute \u2014\u00a0 along with other private partners, collectively invested $125 million in the initiative. In her proposal for next year\u2019s budget, Hochul included $90 million in capital funding to support the inclusion of three more institutions into the consortium, each of which are set to invest an additional $50 million in Empire AI.\u00a0 Christine Constantinople, a CAS assistant professor of neural science, said that the initiative is able to accelerate the progress of her lab\u2019s research with access to artificial neural networks \u2014 AI models that replicate the function of human brains.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of the state-of-the-art research that academia is competing with is happening at big tech companies that have compute power and resources,\u201d Constantinople said in an interview with WSN. \u201cThe goal of Empire AI is to basically provide that level of compute power in an academic research setting. It really changes the landscape of what\u2019s possible to do in a lab.\u201d\u00a0 The initiative aims to increase the accessibility of state-of-the-art technology \u2014 previously exclusive to large companies such as Apple and Microsoft \u2014 to academic institutions. Hochul has also highlighted that Empire AI could create jobs and increase New York\u2019s contribution to breakthrough AI research in the United States.\u00a0 Last month, Cornell University received a $10.5 million gift from Tom Secunda, one of the founding investors in the consortium and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., to fund research using Empire AI\u2019s resources. In a Feb. 21 press release, Hochul detailed that the three prospective institutions would use Empire AI\u2019s resources to advance medical research, AI learning and health care infrastructure.\u00a0 In recent years, NYU has highlighted goals to increase science and technology resources and further its global presence in STEM fields. In addition to joining the Empire AI consortium, the university has also expanded funding for science and engineering facilities and employed Tandon dean Juan de Pablo as the university\u2019s inaugural executive vice president for global science and technology.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEmpire AI was really helpful, because things that used to take us a week to run, you could finish in a day,\u201d Constantinople told WSN. \u201cIt really accelerated the progress of the research and allowed us to be more rigorous and explore more parameter spaces because of the computer power.\u201d Contact Graylin Lucas at news@nyunews.com. This story Hochul expands AI initiative to support researchers at NYU, other state universities appeared first on Washington Square News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jtotheb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}