Bloomberg L.P. co-founder and philanthropist Tom Secunda today announced a landmark donation to Cornell Tech, Cornell University’s tech campus in New York City, totaling $10.5 million to create the Cornell Empire AI Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program Fund. This donation will advance the mission of Empire AI, providing researchers and faculty with unparalleled access to computing power and opportunities to engage in groundbreaking AI research for the public good.

“I’m proud to be supporting Cornell’s top AI researchers in their pursuit of new, groundbreaking AI developments that will benefit the people of New York. By giving these researchers the freedom to explore all the opportunities that this nascent technology has to offer, we are opening up a new world of technological development,” said Secunda, who is a member of the steering committee for the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. “I’m also honored to be contributing to the advancement of Empire AI, which is shaping up to be one of the most impactful public-private technology partnerships in recent memory.”

Secunda’s gift, which totals $10.5 million over 5 years, will establish the Cornell Empire AI Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program Fund at Cornell Tech in partnership with the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. The gift will benefit researchers at both the Cornell Tech campus in New York City and at Cornell’s Bowers College of Computing and Information Science in Ithaca. It will also support an annual public conference to be held at Cornell Tech to showcase the research work being conducted by the Cornell fellows and faculty utilizing Empire AI.

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