Now that Gov. Kathy Hochul has formed a new state artificial intelligence consortium with the University at Buffalo as its hub, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants the new Empire AI to play a leading role in a new federal AI research pilot program that launched last month.
The stretch of upstate including Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse has been chosen as a federally designated “tech hub,” giving the region a chance at upwards of $75 million in funding aimed at transforming its economy into the Silicon Valley of the microchip industry.
Schumer has invited the heads of the Biden administration’s National AI Research Resource pilot to visit New York and “strongly consider” Empire AI for their two-year project to create a national shared infrastructure for AI innovation.
“I write in light of … the establishment of a pilot project for the National AI Research Resource,” Schumer wrote in a letter he shared with The Buffalo News, “and to urge you to strongly consider a consortium formed out of leading New York research institutions as a potential home for this pilot. I would like to invite the Biden administration to send senior officials to visit New York and meet with key stakeholders to discuss this further.”
The letter to the…
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