Today marks a new chapter in an extraordinary partnership between Microsoft and the University of Washington, one that matters deeply for the future we are building together here in Washington.
In our view, no institution plays a more critical role in our state’s future than the University of Washington. It educates generations of students, prepares them for jobs close to home, and has long served as one of the most powerful engines of growth and opportunity in our economy.
We are now entering a new era shaped by AI. Just as research universities once depended on libraries, and later on labs, today they also depend on compute. Without it, research will not keep pace with the questions we need to answer or the challenges we need to solve.
That is why this next chapter in our partnership is so important. Together, we are expanding access to the world’s most advanced GPUs and computational resources, and putting extraordinary datacenter capacity to work for the people who are learning, teaching, and conducting research at UW.
But research has never been about machines alone. Computers are tools. research is, and always will be, about people.
That belief is at the heart of what we are doing together. We are creating new ways for UW researchers to work side by side with Microsoft teams, expanding internships through Microsoft Research and our AI for Good Lab, and opening more pathways for practical, responsible AI learning through UW Continuum College for working adults.
If we want to lead in technology and innovation ten and twenty years from now, and if we want this to remain a place where opportunity is broad and life is more affordable, this kind of partnership is essential. We are proud to support this work, grateful for our partnership with the University of Washington, and genuinely excited about what comes next. We are just getting started.
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