Vol. CLII · No. 168
Inside Harvard's Quiet Bid to Become the World's AI Capital
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Inside Harvard's Quiet Bid to Become the World's AI Capital

A sweeping $1.2 billion initiative — three years in the making — positions the University at the center of the next decade of artificial intelligence, from foundation models to bioethics.

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Eleanor Whitcomb
Senior Correspondent · June 15, 2026 · 18 min read
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