Microsoft promises more AI investments at University of Washington87%
By Joshua McNichols0%
2/25/2026, 4:01:12 PM
Topics: Education
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Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.
Brad Smith, the company's president, made the announcement at a press conference with University of Washington President Robert Jones on Tuesday.
That means hiring more UW graduates as interns at Microsoft, he said.
And he said all students, faculty, and researchers should have access to free, or at least deeply-discounted, AI.
“ Some of it is compute that Microsoft is donating, and some of it is pursuant to an agreement where, believe me, we give the University of Washington probably the best pricing that anybody's gonna find anywhere," Smith said.
He assured the small group of reporters present that it would be "many millions of dollars of additional computational resources.”
The announcement today didn’t include any specific numbers.
But Smith said Microsoft has already invested $165 million in the UW over several decades.
He pointed to Jones' vision to spur "radical collaborations with businesses and communities to advance positive change," and eliminate "any artificial barriers between the university and the communities it serves."
Microsoft’s goal is for AI to help UW researchers solve some of the world’s biggest problems without introducing new ones.
At Tuesday's announcement, several research students were present to demonstrate how AI supports their work.
Amelia Keyser-Gibson is an environmental scientist at the UW.
She's using AI to analyze photographs of vines, to find which adapt best to climate change.
It’s a paradox: AI produces carbon emissions.
At the same time, it’s also a new tool to help reduce them.
So how do those things square for Keyser-Gibson?
" That's a great question, and honestly, I don't know the answer to that," she said.
"I'm highly aware that there's a lot of environmental impact of using AI, but what I can say is that this has allowed us to make research innovations that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise."
"If we had had to manually annotate every single image that would've been an undergrad doing that for hours," Keyser-Gibson continued.
"And we didn't have the budget. We didn't have the manpower to do that."
"AI exists. If we don’t use it as researchers, we're gonna fall behind."
Microsoft reports on its own carbon emissions.
But like most AI companies, it doesn’t reveal everything.
That’s one reason another UW student named Zhihan Zhang is using AI to estimate how much energy AI is using.
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