{"id":94781,"date":"2025-03-08T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=94781"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:07:34","slug":"introducing-nextgenai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/03\/08\/introducing-nextgenai\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research &#038; education with AI [OpenAI]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-nextgenai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research and education with AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from openai.com; via Claire Zau<br \/>\n<em>OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Today, we\u2019re launching NextGenAI, a first-of-its-kind consortium with 15 leading research institutions dedicated to using AI to accelerate research breakthroughs and transform education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">AI has the power to drive progress in research and education\u2014but only when people have the right tools to harness it. That\u2019s why OpenAI is committing $50M in research grants, compute funding, and API access to support students, educators, and researchers advancing the frontiers of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Uniting institutions across the U.S. and abroad, NextGenAI aims to catalyze progress at a rate faster than any one institution would alone. This initiative is built not only to fuel the next generation of discoveries, but also to prepare the next generation to shape AI\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/01\/parents-children-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<strong>\u2018I want him to be prepared\u2019: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theguardian.com by Aaron Mok; via Claire Zau<br \/>\n<em>As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bond<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cMy goal isn\u2019t to make him a generative AI wizard,\u201d White said. \u201cIt\u2019s to give him a foundation for using AI to be creative, build, explore perspectives and enrich his learning.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>White is part of a growing number of parents teaching their young children how to use AI chatbots so they are prepared to deploy the tools responsibly as personal assistants for school, work and daily life when they\u2019re older.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing NextGenAI: A consortium to advance research and education with AI &#8212; from openai.com; via Claire Zau OpenAI commits $50M in funding and tools to leading institutions. Today, we\u2019re launching NextGenAI, a first-of-its-kind consortium with 15 leading research institutions dedicated to using AI to accelerate research breakthroughs and transform education. 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