Empire AI Projects at UB Showcase Our Commitment to Realizing AI for Good
University at Buffalo Consortium member
Launched in April 2024 by Governor Kathy Hochul, Empire AI is a bold partnership of New York’s leading public and private universities coming together to establish a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center, housed at SUNY’s University at Buffalo. Empire AI is already facilitating statewide innovation, research, and development of AI technologies.
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AI for Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Solutions
Harnessing vision‑language technology to tackle agricultural and environmental challenges
This project is developing a large vision-language model (LMM) tailored for the agriculture and climate sectors. Existing multimodal AI tools can converse across many topics, but they often miss domain-specific details in emerging, specialized areas. By training the model to recognize nuanced agro-climatic concepts and link visual data with complex climate and farming questions, the research aims to create a digital assistant that supports decision-making in sustainable food production and climate resilience.
Empire AI
UB researchers are tapping the incredible power of Empire AI.
The $500 million statewide consortium — which Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last year, including its supercomputing center located at UB, a SUNY flagship with decades of leadership in AI and data science — aims to harness AI for the betterment of society and drive innovation in New York State.
