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Massachusetts launches AI Hub, pledges university partnerships and funding to bolster state AI capacity
Summary
Governor Healy announced the Massachusetts AI Hub at the Museum of Science, promising state-backed investments in computing infrastructure, university partnerships and workforce programs including an AI Innovation Challenge and a UMass Amherst student recruitment partnership.
Governor Healy announced the creation of the Massachusetts AI Hub at the Museum of Science, saying the initiative will be housed at the MassTech Collaborative and back academic research, a homegrown AI industry and real-world applications in health care, life sciences, climate technology and finance. "Today, we announce the Massachusetts AI Hub," the governor said (SEG 178).
The hub will be supported by investments in computing infrastructure centered on the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke, which the governor described as a sustainable data and technology center that will provide compute to researchers and businesses. Officials said combined funding from the state and partner universities is expected to be "well north of a $100,000,000" (SEG 213).
The announcement ties to the recently enacted Mass Leads Act, which the governor and Secretary Yvonne Howe said underpins the new investments and programs. According to…
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