Original URL: https://fedscoop.com/nsf-simons-foundation-launch-two-ai-institutes-astronomy/
By Madison Alder (FedScoop, September 18, 2024)
Two new artificial intelligence institutes announced by the National Science Foundation on Wednesday will focus on astronomy, with the aim of using the budding technology to advance humans’ understanding of the universe.
The institutes, which will be funded by NSF and the Simons Foundation, add to the agency’s existing 26 AI institutes across the country. Each new institute will receive $20 million over five years, which breaks down to $10 million from NSF and $10 million from the Simons Foundation, according to a press release from the agency.
“Astronomy has incredibly rich and open data sets and is poised for more deep and profound inquiry,” David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation, said in a statement included in that release. “AI offers novel tools that can use this data both to produce transformative results and to develop tools that can have impact in other fields.”
The two new centers will be called the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, abbreviated NSF-Simons CosmicAI, and the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky, abbreviated NSF-Simons SkAI. According to the release, the work of those institutes also won’t be limited to advancing AI for astronomy alone. To read more, see https://fedscoop.com/nsf-simons-foundation-launch-two-ai-institutes-astronomy/
The SkAI Institute is one of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes funded by the US National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.
Information on National AI Institutes is available at aiinstitutes.org.
