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The Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) will spearhead a new free AI training initiative for all Massachusetts residents, launched through a partnership between Gov. Healey and Google’s Grow with Google program. The Boston Business Journal noted the initiative comes at no cost to the state and is designed to reach workers, small business owners, nonprofits and underrepresented communities.

MassLive mentioned Tech Goes Home won $6 million through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute’s (MBI) Digital Equity Partnerships program, $4 million of which will expand digital skills courses to more than 3,600 incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults and youth across the state.

Saiph Savage, director of the Northeastern Civic AI Lab, mentioned the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) and spoke to the importance of convening diverse stakeholders from government, academia and industry to push the AI sector forward.

A MassLive profile of The Sphere Northampton, a creative space and innovation hub for women and nonbinary entrepreneurs, notes that the organization received funding from MassTech’s Strong Entrepreneur Ecosystems program (run by the Innovation Institute) to research barriers to success for women-owned businesses.

Government Technology republished MassLive's article on western Massachusetts' efforts to grow the quantum computing, cybersecurity, and food science sectors with the piece referencing the Innovation Institute's $5 million grant to establish a quantum computing complex at MGHPCC in Holyoke.

A MassLive feature on western Massachusetts' push to build innovation economies around quantum computing, cybersecurity, and food science pointed to the Innovation Institute's $5 million grant to establish a quantum computing complex at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke.

The Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub)'s AI Models Innovation Challenge to advance domain-specific AI model development took center stage in this R&D World article.

Florrent, a Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2) grantee, received coverage in the Greenfield Recorder for its $402,000 award alongside remarks from the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) Director Lily Fitzgerald on the company's planned expansion.the company's planned expansion.

Inside AI News highlighted the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub)'s $2 million AI Models Innovation Challenge to fund cutting-edge, domain-specific AI model development.

Robotics 24/7 covered the second MassRobotics Accelerator cohort and emphasized the Innovation Institute’s $2 million award to 20 robotics startups across two years of the program. MassTech Director of Robotics Peter Haas is quoted in the piece, praising the state's wealth of talent and saying the awards will continue to spur competition and drive future breakthroughs.