By Adam Harrington,Dylan Olsen
Publication Date: 2026-04-16 17:32:00
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and IBM are renewing the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute, a partnership first launched in 2021.
The institute will focus on artificial intelligence and supercomputing.
“We’re ushering in the next chapter of quantum-AI supercomputing research, and the next wave of world-changing breakthroughs,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Thursday.
Since the Discovery Accelerator Institute launched in 2021, it has delivered more than 230 research publications and advanced 20 active projects across the fields of AI, quantum computing, and other emerging fields — including material discovery and sustainability.
The renewed and expanded institute will give Illinois students, researchers, and companies access to some of the world’s most advanced computing tools — helping scientists test hypotheses, speed up discoveries, and solve problems in fields such as health care, clean energy, agriculture, and manufacturing, according to the governor’s…
