Artificial Intelligence

Here you'll find articles detailing new developments in artificial intelligence and how it's impacting higher education.


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New Boston-Based Research Center to Advance Quantum Computing with AI

NVIDIA is establishing a research hub dedicated to advancing quantum computing through artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing technologies.

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Google, Microsoft Expand AI-Driven Search Capabilities

Recent announcements from Google and Microsoft highlight a slough of AI capabilities for their search tools.

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AWS Offers DeepSeek-R1 as Fully Managed Serverless Model, Recommends Guardrails

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed serverless AI model, enabling developers to build and deploy it without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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Integration Brings Cerebras Inference Capabilities to Hugging Face Hub

AI hardware company Cerebras has teamed up with Hugging Face, the open source platform and community for machine learning, to integrate its inference capabilities into the Hugging Face Hub.

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Mistral AI Introduces AI-Powered OCR

French AI startup Mistral AI has launched Mistral OCR, an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) API designed to convert printed and scanned documents into digital files with "unprecedented accuracy."

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Gravyty Merges with AI-Powered Student Engagement Companies Ivy.ai and Ocelot

Gravyty, a provider of alumni and donor engagement and fundraising solutions, has announced a merger with AI-powered student enrollment and engagement companies Ivy.ai and Ocelot. The combined company will operate under the Gravyty brand.

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Cal Poly Pomona Launches AI and Innovation Center

In an effort to advance AI innovation, foster community engagement, and prepare students for careers in STEM fields and business, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona has teamed up with AI, cloud, and advisory services provider Avanade to launch a new Avanade AI & Innovation Center.

Anton Spiridonov, a senior at Bentley University majoring in Computer Information Systems, demonstrates his chatbot at a recent technology projects open house.

Project-Based Learning in an AI-Inspired Era

Exploring the sweet spot between project-based learning and the latest in powerful AI tools at Bentley University.

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New Turnitin Product Brings AI-Powered Tools to Students with Instructor Guardrails

Academic integrity solution provider Turnitin has introduced Turnitin Clarity, a paid add-on for Turnitin Feedback Studio that provides a composition workspace for students with educator-guided AI assistance, AI-generated writing feedback, visibility into integrity insights, and more.

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OpenAI Launches Its Largest AI Model Yet in Research Preview

OpenAI has announced the launch of GPT-4.5, its largest AI model to date, code-named Orion. The model, trained with more computing power and data than any previous OpenAI release, is available as a research preview to select users.