HUNTER COLLEGE — Governor Kathy Hochul announced last month that CUNY will receive $75 million from the Simons Foundation to improve the computational science programs and incorporate CUNY into the governor’s proposed Empire AI project.
The donation is the largest in CUNY history. The funds will be split with $50 million going toward enhancing the computational science programs and $25 million to establish CUNY as part of Hochul’s plan for an AI computing center upstate, consisting of various local universities in a collaborative research consortium.
