EducationLarge Language ModelsRetrieval-Augmented GenerationConversational AI
University of Michigan Offers Several AI Services to Staff and Students
In August 2023 the University of Michigan launched UM-GPT, becoming (per the source) the first higher education institution to offer AI services at scale, providing secure access to commercially available large language models through the university's private Microsoft Azure environment. Michigan has since launched U-M Maizey, a codeless platform for building custom AI experiences from uploaded data sets using retrieval-augmented generation, with more than 3,500 Maizey instances in production across academic and operational departments, and Go Blue, a mobile AI assistant for campus life. To avoid vendor lock-in, Michigan runs AI workloads across multiple environments including on-premises infrastructure, letting users pick their LLM via a dropdown.
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Microsoft Azure · Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)