Universities don’t want AI research to leave them behind
Live MintUniversities are in a race for relevance in the field of generative AI as private companies, loaded with talent and pricey chips, drive the conversation. While basic university research has been critical to waves of technological innovation, generative AI research has been dominated by private companies, thanks in part to their access to the data and dollars needed to build and train models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini. OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said last year that training his company’s biggest models cost “much more than" $50 million to $100 million. The search for computing power Lipson said universities like Columbia are spending big to build out their computing resources, but they are also looking to other arrangements like sharing resources among universities. The University of Chicago has a relationship with Argonne National Laboratory that allows it to leverage some of the lab’s computing resources, said Hank Hoffmann, chair of the university’s computer science department.
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