News Coverage

As New Jersey rolled out a $20 million AI Hub fund to empower early-stage and growth-stage AI startups, a comparison was made to the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) AI Models Program. The two programs similarly foster innovation and broaden access to capital.

BU Today published a recap of a statewide AI progress event hosted by MGHPCC and the Healey-Driscoll Administration, noting that the Massachusetts AI Hub is led by Sabrina Mansur and supported by MassTech under CEO Carolyn Kirk. The story also cites MassTech’s Innovation Institute as a BU partner on projects including the Robotics & Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center and the New England Research Cloud.

BU Today, the Boston University student newspaper, covered the Dec. 19 announcement of the Artificial Intelligence Compute Resources (AICR) environment vendors chosen by the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).

The mid-December announcement of the vendors chosen by the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) to build out the Artificial Intelligence Compute Resources (AICR) environment at the facility in Holyoke was covered in depth by the Boston Business Journal.

Government Technology's weekly digital equity recap included the Massachusetts Broadband Institute’s (MBI) $4.5-million Municipal Digital Equity Implementation Program announcement and the selection of 10 municipalities for the Municipal Digital Equity Planning Program as examples of efforts to help cities and towns expand access.

The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, a nonprofit that promotes communication policies for more affordable and reliable internet access, covered the Massachusetts Broadband Institute’s (MBI) announcement of $4.5 million to 61 Massachusetts communities as part of the Municipal Digital Equity Implementation Program.

In advance of the event, HPCwire reported the Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) would announce vendors for the Artificial Intelligence Compute Resources (AICR) environment in Holyoke.

The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) published a story about its Hack the Health Gap Innovation Hackathon, which was created in partnership with the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI). The article quotes MeHI Director Keely Benson.

WGBH reported on MIT’s new quantum computing initiative by citing findings from the Innovation Institute’s 2023 Massachusetts Quantum Computing Ecosystem Study.

MIT's ambitious launch of the QMIT quantum initiative aims to advance transformative quantum science and practical applications.