By LinkedInEditors
Publication Date: 2026-01-17 17:42:00
The University of Washington is getting a major boost for its AI ambitions: a new $10 million federal investment to expand the computing infrastructure behind data‑intensive research.
Speaking with GeekWire during a visit to the UW campus, Sen. Patty Murray framed the funding as a necessary counterweight to an AI ecosystem increasingly shaped by private capital: “If just billionaires are creating and using AI for their own projects that make money, then we lose out on most of the benefits of AI.” Read more.
Above:
Magdalena Balazinska
, director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering;
Andrew Connolly
, director of the eScience Institute; Robert Jones, president of the University of Washington; and Sen. Patty Murray.
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