Amazon has announced a new AI PhD Fellowship program for PhD students in the area of AI research trhat will support  PhD students at nine universities in the USA. 

The program will provide $10 million in student funding, along with another $24 million annually in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-computing credits, with an overall total value to the participating universities to $68 million over two years.

The universities in the program are Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford,  Berkeley; UCLA, the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign, the University of Texas at Austin; and the University of Washington. All nine of the participating universities have existing research collaborations with Amazon, through the Amazon Hubs program, the Amazon Scholar program, Amazon Research Awards, and other initiatives.

Each PhD fellow will also be paired with an Amazon mentor, a senior scientist working at Amazon on a topic related to the fellow's work. Amazon mentors will meet regularly with their fellows to offer guidance and to discuss the real-world implications of the fellows' research.

Rohit Prasad, senior vice president and head scientist in Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence, says he views collaborating with the some of the brightest PhD students at the nation's leading research universities as big win for Amazon.

"What makes this program special is how it brings together Amazon's real-world experience across diverse industries with the fresh perspectives of these top researchers to cultivate the next generation of AI leaders." 

The areas of research that will qualify for the grants include agentic systems; large language models and other generative-AI models; machine learning systems; and automated reasoning. 

The universities themselves have selected the fellows, following Amazon's guidance to prioritize work that promises a substantial impact on practical AI problems. Fellows' funding is intended to cover tuition, stipends, and fees. Each university receives $1.1 million per year, and the number of fellows funded varies according to the universities' financial arrangements with their students.

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