California, NVIDIA Launch Novel AI Collaboration

New state initiative with NVIDIA kickstarts efforts to expand AI tools and resources so students, educators, and workers can learn new skills and advance careers, NVIDIA reports.

California, NVIDIA launch first-of-its-kind Al collaboration. Image courtesy of NVIDIA and Office of the Governor.

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By DE Editors

August 9, 2024

Memorandum of Understanding

Harness AI to grow economy; create jobs

NVIDIA aims to give technical guidance, mentoring, and access to AI hardware and software resources.
California will explore opportunities to support early-stage AI startups and public-private partnerships.
NVIDIA strives to explore hackathons or design sprints that showcase practical applications of AI in California.

Train students, educators, & workers

California and NVIDIA will collaborate on creating AI laboratories in higher education equipped to meet needs of AI education and research.
California will fund AI worker training initiatives across educational institutions and industries and work with NVIDIA to develop faculty programs.
NVIDIA aims to create pipelines for AI talent and industry-recognized certifications for AI in specific sectors.
California will adopt skills and training for state careers, including roles for AI specialists in government.

Promote statewide, real-world applications

NVIDIA and California will support initiatives to use AI technologies to address local challenges.
NVIDIA to help enable access to AI hardware, software, and cloud computing resources for educational/ research initiatives.

Partner with community colleges

Integrate AI concepts into curriculum for students to learn how to use AI applications to help them get jobs in high-demand sectors.
Organize AI workshops and bootcamps relevant to in-demand local jobs and collaborate with regional employers to build an in-demand skilled workforce.
Identify faculty for AI ambassador programs and faculty development programs, expand AI certificate programs across colleges to meet local employer needs.

NVIDIA is partnering with the state of California on a new initiative to collaborate on artificial intelligence (AI) plans and provide students, educators, and workers with access to the evolving technology.

The initiative, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom and NVIDIA founder & CEO Jensen Huang, is intended to:

Train students, educators and workers
Support job creation and promote innovation
Use AI to solve challenges

The initiative is partly built to also bring new AI resources into community colleges from NVIDIA, including curriculum and certifications, hardware and software, AI labs and workshops, and more, to equip students, educators and workers to learn new skills and advance their careers, according to NVIDIA.

This initiative builds off of Governor Newsom’s executive order, which called for the state to use AI to serve Californians. Just this year, the state unveiled a state worker training program, held a GenAI summit, issued a GenAI toolkit for state procurement, launched pilot projects to explore how GenAI could help address challenges like traffic congestion and language accessibility, and more.

“We’re in the early stages of a new industrial revolution that will transform trillion-dollar industries around the world,” says NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “Together with California, NVIDIA will train 100,000 students, college faculty, developers, and data scientists to harness this technology to prepare California for tomorrow’s challenges and unlock prosperity throughout the state.”

California has issued a call to action encouraging other AI and tech stakeholders to join future partnerships to ensure California can help be leader in education, innovation, research, and preparing the workforce of the future and today. California’s University of California and California State University systems will also partner with the state on these efforts in the future, according to the Office of the Governor.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.