Anonymous wrote:Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU. That’s really all that you need to understand who is developing the AI space.

Name a ground breaking result from each of these four?

I am so sick of hearing about AI. I wish it would just implode on itself.

Anonymous wrote:Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU. That’s really all that you need to understand who is developing the AI space.

As always...everyone can only think in terms of the US.

University of Toronto essentially created what everyone considers AI. Professor there is considered the father of AI and started Google Brain and the lead scientist who created the LLM that was the basis of Open AI (and started his own company and is massively influential) graduated from Toronto.

Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and CMU. That’s really all that you need to understand who is developing the AI space.

Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin received a $50M donation last year to develop interdisciplinary AI curricula. Supports current faculty, hires new faculty, supports student research, etc.

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/03/announcing-the-hastings-initiative-for-ai-and-humanity.html

Bowdoin is a non consequential school that does nothing for the AI space.

JHU and UCLA? You’re kidding.

Look at the Alma maters of people at OpenAI, Deepmind, Anthropic, etc.

Amazon fires many. Don’t count on the following through.

Sorry - here's the main page for Bowdoin.

https://www.bowdoin.edu/hastings-ai-initiative/index.html

Anonymous wrote:https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU

PhD...Thats a lot of schooling for the typical CS major!

Bowdoin received a $50M donation last year to develop interdisciplinary AI curricula. Supports current faculty, hires new faculty, supports student research, etc.

https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2025/03/announcing-the-hastings-initiative-for-ai-and-humanity.html

Here's the better actual ranking, AI T20

https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&inforet&us

1. Carnegie Mellon University
2. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. University of Maryland - College Park
4. Cornell University
5. Univ. of California - San Diego
6. Stanford University
7. Georgia Institute of Technology
8. University of Michigan
9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10. Univ. of California - Berkeley
11. Univ. of California - Los Angeles
12. New York University
13. University of Massachusetts Amherst
14. University of Washington
15. University of Southern California
16. Johns Hopkins University
17. Northeastern University
18. University of Texas at Austin
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. Columbia University

Look at Cal Poly SLO. And see this recent article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html

Anonymous wrote:https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU

I don't understand how you are coming to that conclusion. Amazon is certainly not the leader in developing AI, so how do you arrive at the conclusion because Amazon is partnering with these schools. These schools were existing Amazon partners on other initiatives, and I am sure have excellent programs...but all the big tech companies have PhD fellowship programs and have a much wider list of schools.

https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Amazon is announcing its new AI PhD Fellowship program, which will provide two years of funding for more than 100 PhD students at nine universities who are pursuing research on core AI disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing.

These are the best AI schools in the country:
MIT
Stanford
CMU
UCB
UIUC
UT
UCLA
UW
JHU