Universities Are Woefully Under-Resourced For AI Research. They’re Fighting To Change That.

Stanford University has 300 GPUs. Microsoft will have 1.8 million. Here's what's needed to make academia relevant in AI research.

In front of a packed room inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, the leadership of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI made a plea. 

Co-director Fei-Fei Li and executive director Russell Wald told the approximately 200 congressional staffers gathered that universities today simply don’t have the resources to do b…